Kremlin welcomes invitation for Putin to attend G20 in Miami and promises to "work through this issue"

Dmitry Peskov, Russian leader Vladimir Putin's press secretary, has said that the Kremlin "welcomes" the US's decision to invite Putin to the G20 summit in Miami.

Source: Peskov in a comment to Interfax

Quote: "We have heard the invitation. We are grateful to the American side for this invitation, we welcome it, and we will make a decision and then work through this issue via diplomatic channels."

Background:

• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States had invited Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the G20 leaders' summit in Miami this December and expressed hope that he would attend.
• Bloomberg has reported that Putin is likely to skip the G20 summit, which will be attended by US President Donald Trump.
• It recently emerged that Putin rejected a proposal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to hold talks on ending the war on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
• Trump himself has said that he does not know whether Putin would agree to a trilateral meeting with Zelenskyy in Miami.

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