MOSCOW – No bilateral meetings between Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin are scheduled during the APEC and G20 summits next week, a Kremlin spokesman said Wednesday.”No bilateral meeting is planned for the moment,” spokesman Dmitri Peskov said, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. He added that informal contacts between the US and Russian leaders were not ruled out.The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is to be held in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday, while the G20 will convene in Australia days later, on November 15-16.Despite initial hesitation over Putin’s attendance of the G20 due to Moscow’s involvement in …read more
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