Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he has invited President Donald Trump to Moscow for a second face-to-face meeting, NBC News reported.
During an economic summit in South Africa, Putin also said he was “ready to come to Washington.”
“We are ready to invite President Trump to Moscow. He has, by the way, such an invitation, I told him about it,” Putin said.
Putin said that during the pair’s last meeting in Helsinki, Finland, the leaders discussed things that “concern very many countries around the world and, including, all of Europe.”
Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton said earlier this week that a D.C.-based meeting between Trump and Putin would be put off until 2019 because of special counsel Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt.”
“President Trump looks forward to having President Putin to Washington after the first of the year, and he is open to visiting Moscow upon receiving a formal invitation,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told NBC News Friday about the new offer.
Source : Nbcnewyork
