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US President Donald Trump is due to meet his Russian and Chinese counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, in China next week, the White House announced on Friday, according to euronews.com.
The trilateral meeting is scheduled to take place in Shenzhen, in south-eastern China, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, the White House clarified.
“The President has made it clear that, amongst other topics, he will be discussing the reduction of nuclear weapons worldwide. Such proliferation, in President Trump’s view, is very dangerous,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters.
According to US officials cited by Agence France-Presse, Trump is also expected to raise the issue of the war in Iran, but not that in Ukraine.
A senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that Washington has a “completely different track” of negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow, aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
“China is not actually part of this track, so discussing Ukraine there seems out of place,” the official said.
Moscow and Beijing have not yet commented on reports of the alleged meeting.
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