MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit next month and decide on further bilateral talks on their own, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
"It is self-evident that the presidents will in one way or another meet within the framework of the G20 forum," Peskov told reporters, noting that the two leaders would make a separate decision of a meeting on the sidelines of the summit.
US National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes said Monday that Obama and Putin were likely to speak on the sidelines of the G20 despite having no formal meeting scheduled.
The 2016 G20 summit of the world’s 20 biggest economies in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou will be held on September 4–5.
