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US President Donald Trump claimed that he can cancel the meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at G20 summit in Argentina out of the situation in the Kerch Strait, TASS reports. The US president said he waited for a “full report” from his national security team over the incident.
“It [the report] will be defining," the Washington Post newspaper cites him on Tuesday. “Maybe I will not meet [Putin]. I do not like this aggression. I don’t want this aggression at all".
According to Trump, he will receive the report on the events in the Kerch Strait on November 27 at 6 pm (November 28, 02:00 Moscow time) and then decide. The American president stressed that he needed "to have pretty convincing confirmations of what happened."
"I absolutely do not like this aggression, absolutely. And, by the way, Europe should not like this aggression. And Germany should not like this aggression," he stressed and once again called on the Federal Republic of Germany to increase defence spending.
Earlier, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said that the meeting of the US and Russian presidents on the sidelines of the G20 summit, which will be held from November 29 to December 1 in Buenos Aires, will develop their discussions in Helsinki. The leaders will discuss all the problems of relations between the two countries including arms control issues.
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