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CAP-GIRARDEAU, Missouri – President Trump said Monday that a meeting with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin that is scheduled to take place this weekend in Paris will be postponed to a later date, perhaps later in the current of the month, while they plan to attend an international summit in Buenos Aires.
Trump sent his national security adviser, John R. Bolton, last month to Moscow to discuss the Paris meeting, but in response to reporters on Monday, the president said the two leaders would probably not meet again. before the annual meeting. leaders of the group of 20 great nations.
"Well, we have not prepared anything yet," Trump said before leaving Washington for a final day of campaigning in Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections. "We do not know it will be the right place. I will be in Paris for other reasons. But we will meet at the G-20. And we will probably have meetings after that – probably a lot of meetings. "
"To hear with Russia, China and all these people would be a good thing," he added. "I say it for a long time. We will have a lot of meetings. But I'm not sure we'll have a meeting in Paris – probably not. "
The change in timing came at a time of tension between Washington and Moscow over the fate of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. signed by President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev in 1987, which eliminated an entire class of weapons in the nuclear stocks of the two opponents of the Cold War. Mr Trump said he would withdraw the US from the treaty after several reports of violations by Russia.
Mr. Trump did not explain Monday why he had ended the Paris meeting, but a Kremlin spokesman said the weekend's event schedule did not allow for a thorough discussion. The two presidents are joining world leaders in Paris to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War on Sunday.
"Putin and Trump will be able to cross each other and decide when they will meet in full format," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russian news agency Interfax.
This was Mr. Trump's second change of agenda for the weekend trip to Europe. He was originally supposed to go to Ireland, but canceled that judgment. Likewise, last week he canceled a planned trip to Colombia at a G20 summit in South America.
