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White House: Trump expects a meeting with Putin in Washington next year
US President Donald Trump is waiting for a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Washington "After January 1", CNN reports with reference to the press secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders.
According to Sanders, Trump is also ready to come to Moscow, but has not yet received an official invitation from the Kremlin.
On Friday, the Russian president said that Trump received an official invitation to visit Moscow from the Russian side. “I am ready to come to Washington, but I repeat: if the appropriate conditions are created there,” Putin added. What conditions he means, he did not specify.
According to Putin, Russia and the USA, "despite all the difficulties - in this case, on the difficulties in the domestic political life of the United States," keep contacts at meetings within the G20 and other international forums.
Putin added that Trump seeks to fulfill their promises - he called it a "big plus."
On Wednesday, Trump's adviser John Bolton said that the next meeting of Putin and Trump will be held in the first half of 2019 "after the end of the witch hunt in relation to Russia." “Witch Hunting” Trump and his team members call the investigation of Russia's intervention in the 2016 US presidential election, which is conducted by the Commission of the Special Prosecutor Robert Muller.
A day earlier, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the Republican Paul Ryan and the leader of the republican majority in the Senate Mitch Makkonnel promised not to invite Putin to Congress if he came to the American capital.
On November 6, intermediate elections will be held in the United States - the House of Representatives, 35 out of 100 senators, 39 governors of state and territories will be completely re -elected. In a number of states, other elections at the local level will also take place.
On July 19, Sanders said that Trump instructed Bolton to transfer to Putin an invitation to visit the American capital in the future autumn and negotiations on the new meeting of the two presidents are already underway.