MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Wednesday, the White House said a meeting between the two leaders during the UN General Assembly could not be confirmed.
However, unnamed US administration officials said they expected a meeting to be arranged on Monday or Tuesday on the sidelines of the annual UN session, the newspaper reported.
Earlier in September, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin remained open to dialogue with his US counterpart.
An annual general debate at the UN General Assembly will take place between September 28 and October 3.