I will not meet Putin, says Trump

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had no plans to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Paris at the weekend, despite an earlier announcement from Moscow that the pair would talk there.

The two leaders will be in France on November 11 for events to mark the centenary of the end of World War 1, which more than 60 heads of state and government are expected to attend.

“I believe that President Putin will be there, we do not have anything scheduled,” Trump said at a White House news conference.

“I do not think that we have anything scheduled in Paris. And I am coming back very quickly.”

Earlier in the day, however, Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov said the pair had scheduled a brief conversation.

“It has been agreed that the leaders of the US and Russia will talk only briefly in Paris, it will be a standing meeting,” he told Russian news agencies.