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Kremlin 'regrets' Trump decision to cancel Putin talks

News Desk (Agence France-Presse)
Moscow, Russia
Fri, November 30, 2018

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Kremlin 'regrets' Trump decision to cancel Putin talks US President Donald Trump (L) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin smile as they attend a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. The US and Russian leaders opened an historic summit in Helsinki, with Donald Trump promising an (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)

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S President Donald Trump's decision to cancel talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit was regrettable, the Kremlin said.

"We regret the US administration's decision to cancel the meeting," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies. 

"This means that discussion of important issues on the international and bilateral agenda will be postponed indefinitely."

Putin, he said, "is ready to have contacts with his American counterpart."

Trump on Thursday scrapped the meeting over Moscow's seizure at the weekend of three Ukrainian ships and continued detention of a group of Ukrainian sailors.

The two had been set for bilateral talks on Saturday at the G20 in Buenos Aires.

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