"I don't want to have a wasted meeting. I don't want to have a waste of time. So I'll see what happens," he told journalists in the White House on Tuesday. "We haven't made a determination," Trump emphasized.
A decision on whether the Russia-US summit will take place in Hungary may be made in the next couple of days, he noted, according to TASS.
"You never know what's going to happen," the US leader said, adding that media outlets will be notified "over the next two days as to what we're doing." "A lot of things are happening," he stressed.
On October 16, Trump, following a phone conversation with Putin, said that they had agreed to meet in Budapest soon. Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov also confirmed that Moscow and Washington will begin preparing for a new meeting between the two leaders which may take place in the Hungarian capital "without delay." According to him, this is "indeed a very important moment." Preparations for the meeting will begin in the near future, following a phone conversation between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Ushakov specified.
In response, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ordered the formation of an organizing committee to facilitate the summit.
On October 20, Lavrov and Rubio held a phone call where they discussed potential steps to implement the understandings reached during the Putin-Trump phone talks.
Later, CNN reported that a meeting between Lavrov and Rubio had been postponed indefinitely which may impact the Budapest talks between the Russian and US leaders.
As Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted, the Russia-US summit requires serious preparations so no specific dates had been set.
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