No details on Putin-Trump communication as Russia stays open to dialogue — Kremlin

Russian Politics & Diplomacy November 08, 14:13

On Thursday, Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on winning the US presidential election while participating in the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club

MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin remains willing and open to dialogue with US President-elect Donald Trump, but there are no details on the matter at this time, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"We all heard Mr. Trump say during his election campaign that he intended to reach out to Putin himself. This is why the willingness and openness are there, and the Russian head of state emphasized this yesterday. <...> No specifics can be provided at this time," he told reporters.

On Thursday, Putin congratulated Trump on winning the US presidential election while participating in the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club. The Russian president added that he wouldn’t consider it "a disgrace" to initiate a call to Trump himself. The US president-elect said earlier in an interview with NBC News that he had not spoken with Putin after winning the election but did not rule out such a possibility.

Peskov stressed later that the agenda of a call between the Russian leader and the US president-elect was still unclear.

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