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No plan yet on Putin-Trump meeting: Kremlin

Xinhua, January 17, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Kremlin denied Monday a report on preliminary arrangements for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

"The media report about some preliminary agreements regarding the meeting between Putin and Trump is not true," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.

British newspaper The Sunday Times reported Sunday that Trump, after his inauguration on Jan. 20, planned to make his first foreign trip to Reykjavik, Iceland, and could meet Putin there.

However, two unnamed senior aides to Trump denied the report later.

The Kremlin spokesman also stressed Monday that Russia is not negotiating with the United States about nuclear disarmament, although Trump suggested that the subject be discussed in conjunction with the lifting of sanctions.

Peskov added that the Russian government currently did not have any contacts with the office of Trump nor intend to have such contacts before his inauguration. Endit