UK Prime Minister Theresa May To Hold Talks On Post-Brexit Trade With US President Donald Trump At UNGA - Reports

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is going to hold negotiations with US President Donald Trump on Brexit and the post-Brexit bilateral trade on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), local media reported on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 25th September, 2018) UK Prime Minister Theresa May is going to hold negotiations with US President Donald Trump on Brexit and the post-Brexit bilateral trade on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), local media reported on Tuesday.

According to the Express media outlet, May's plans to meet with Trump were confirmed by Downing Street.

On the sidelines of the 73rd Session of UNGA, the UK prime minister is also going to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in order to discuss the case of UK citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is imprisoned in Iran.

May will also take part in discussions on chemical weapons control, focusing on alleged Russian links to the Salisbury incident that resulted in poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Russian authorities have repeatedly refuted the allegations as groundless.

The 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, headed by Ecuador's Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, began on September 18.