"Of course, in spite of a very tight schedule, bilateral talks on the sidelines will be held. The chancellor will have a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during which the transfer of the G20 presidency to Germany will be discussed… Other bilateral meetings have not been agreed finally yet," the source said.
Earlier this month, the Kremlin’s press service said that Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and French leader Francois Hollande had agreed during a phone conversation to have a joint meeting to discuss the Ukrainian conflict on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
On Monday, Merkel's office told Sputnik that the meeting on Ukraine between the three leaders had not been confirmed yet.
The 2016 G20 summit of the world’s 20 biggest economies in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou will be held on September 4–5.
