Trump cancels G-20 meeting with Putin, citing standoff with Ukraine

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US President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on November 11, 2017.

President Donald Trump on Thursday cancelled his planned meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G-20 summit in Argentina.

Trump’s cancellation came an hour after he told reporters that he would probably meet with Putin there.

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“I will probably be meeting with President Putin. We haven’t terminated that meeting,” Trump had said outside the White House, shortly before departing for Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“Are I was thinking about it but they’d like to have it. I think it’s a very good time to have the meeting. I’m getting a full report on the plane as to what happened with respect to that and that will determine whether I will be meeting.”

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