Serbian top diplomat offers Belgrade as venue for possible meeting between Putin and Trump

World March 23, 2018, 17:13

The two presidents had a telephone conversation on March 20

BELGRADE, March 23. /TASS/. Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic has come out with an initiative to organize a meeting between Russian and US President, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, in Belgrade.

"We offer Belgrade, if it comes to a meeting between Trump and Putin. There is no better place than Serbia," he said on Friday.

The two presidents had a telephone conversation on March 20. After that, Trump told journalists he had called Putin to congratulate him on being reelected Russian president. The US leader said he and Putin might meet "in the not too distant future" to discuss the arms race and the situation in Syria, Ukraine and North Korea.

Earlier, Russian president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that during their phone conversation on March 20, the two leaders had agreed to task their top diplomats to establish contact to discuss a venue and date for a possible summit.

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