Kommersant: Putin's full-format meeting with Trump fell due to macron

The full-format meeting of Vladimir Putin with US President Donald Trump, which was supposed to be held in Paris on November 11 on the sidelines of events on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, fell due to the intervention of the French President Emmanuel Macron. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a certain "informed European diplomatic source."

"Macron asked Moscow and Washington not to conduct full -format negotiations in Paris so that they would not overshadow the events and meetings prepared by the Elisean Palace. This is literally so formulated," the interlocutor reports.

The initiative of the negotiations came from Putin. The proposal to hold a meeting on November 11 in Paris he handed over to Trump through John Bolton , an adviser to the American president in national security, who visited Moscow in the second half of October.

However, on Monday, Trump said that the meeting would probably not take place. The press secretary of Putin Dmitry Peskov spoke in the same vein. "The schedule of a multilateral event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War does not allow such a meeting," he explained.