The American president did not rule out meeting with his Russian counterpart at a later date
US President Donald Trump canceled his planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, saying he does not believe the talks will produce the desired results at this stage of the dialogue. Moscow has not yet commented.
Trump made the announcement during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House on Wednesday, and said the planned summit in Hungary “I didn’t feel good.”
“It didn’t look like we were going to get to the place we needed to get to, so I canceled it.” said.
However, Trump did not rule out holding talks with Putin at a later date. “But we will.” [the summit] in the future,” he added, without specifying when or where a meeting might take place.
Trump’s comments come shortly after the US Treasury Department unveiled additional sanctions on Russia, citing its“lack of serious commitment to a peace process.” The restrictions targeted two of Russia’s largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as their subsidiaries.
Trump, however, admitted that he was unsure whether the new sanctions would change Russia’s stance on the Ukraine conflict. “I hope you hear [Putin] will be reasonable and, hopefully, [Ukraine’s Vladimir] Zelensky also wants to be reasonable.” said. “It takes two to tango.”
Plans for a Putin-Trump summit were first announced last week after the two leaders spoke by phone, although no specific date had been set.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov previously said that the meeting between Russia and the United States should be preceded by “serious preparations” highlighting that a summit between the two leaders “should not be wasted” like both presidents “We are used to working to obtain a result.”
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