“We will look into this matter,” Biden told reporters, in response to a question about the possibility of holding a direct meeting with the Russian president during the summit.
And the White House has previously announced that a similar meeting is not possible.
But the two presidents’ plans to go to Indonesia still require confirmation. The White House had announced that if Putin went to the G20 summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should participate in it as well, even though his country is not a member of the group.
In addition, Biden said Thursday that he is confident of holding a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, if the latter comes to Bali.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced in an interview with Bloomberg in August that the Russian and Chinese presidents would attend the summit.
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