Putin-Erdogan meeting in Paris on Nov 30 not planned — Kremlin

MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/. The meeting of Presidents of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Recept Tayyip Erdogan at the Paris climate summit on November 30 is not planned, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

"No separate meeting in Paris is discussed and planned," he told reporters. "Nor do I have any information at the moment about the planned telephone conversations (of the two leaders)."

Peskov earlier said that no preparations were underway for a separate meeting of Putin and US President Barack Obama at the climate summit in Paris, but the two leaders’ contacts were possible. "Indeed, any particular meeting has not been discussed yet," he said. "However, all of us know only too well that, if desired and if necessary, the Russian and US leaders use multilateral formats for contacts with each other in one form or another," the Kremlin spokesman said.

Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov earlier said that Putin would hold a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the climate conference, other contacts are possible as well.