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| Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s ready to meet his American counterpart, Donald Trump, with Ljubljana, Slovenia, confirmed as a possible venue for the first encounter. | |
| “Ljubljana – and Slovenia in general – is of course a great place to hold such dialogue,” Putin said on Friday. | “Ljubljana – and Slovenia in general – is of course a great place to hold such dialogue,” Putin said on Friday. |
| Putin, who is currently welcoming Slovenian President Borut Pahor in Russia on an official visit, thanked his guest for his eagerness to host such a meeting, but said that the choice of venue did not depend on Moscow alone. | |
| “If this meeting takes place someday, we have nothing against Ljubljana [as the venue],” Putin said at a press conference. He reminded that he also met with former US President Barack Obama in the Slovenian capital. | |
| The Russian and the new American presidents had their first phone conversation after Trump's inauguration in January. Yet, after Trump was sworn into presidency, Kremlin said it would take months rather than weeks to organize a meeting between the two leaders. | |
| “It won’t happen in a matter of weeks,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the BBC, adding the meeting could “hopefully” happen “in the months to come.” | |
| Relations between Moscow and Washington have deteriorated badly over the past five years, the Russian president said on Friday. They “require recovery in the interests of both the Russian and American people,” Putin added, saying that Moscow has always “welcomed” mending ties with the US. | |
| “We have always welcomed and count on restoring our relations to the full scale and in all directions, but it depends not only on us, but also on the American side,” Putin said. |