Russia Received No Specific Proposals From US On Putin-Trump Meeting - Lavrov

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) Russia has not received any specific proposals from the United States on a possible meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in the Japanese city of Osaka, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that Moscow will respond if Washington officially confirms its interest in such a meeting.

"We have not received any specific proposals so far. However, time is running out. I think, if such an interest from the United States is officially confirmed, we will respond to it," the minister stated in an interview to Russia's RBC media outlet.

The G20 summit in Osaka is scheduled to take place from June 28-29.

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on Tuesday that Russia had not received any signals from the United States, except on Twitter, for holding a new meeting between the presidents.

During their talks in the Russian city of Sochi in May, Putin and US State Secretary Mike Pompeo touched upon a possible high-level Russian-US meeting on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit. However, Russia has not yet received any official proposals from Washington.

Putin and Trump met three times. The first meeting took place in June 2017 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in the German city of Hamburg. The second meeting happened four months later � in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang. In summer 2018, Putin and Trump met for the third time during their summit in Helsinki, Finland.