NBC reported a pause in preparations for the Trump-Putin summit in Budapest

Preparations for the summit of US Presidents Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was supposed to take place in Budapest, were allegedly temporarily suspended. This was reported on October 21 by NBC News journalist Garrett Haake, citing a senior White House official.

According to the source, the telephone conversation between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was productive. However, as Trump stressed, at the moment the parties are not ready for negotiations at this level, and the negotiation process cannot move forward.

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On October 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed possible concrete steps in a telephone conversation to implement the understandings that were reached during the talks between Putin and Trump.

Subsequently, on October 21, CNN announced that the meeting between Rubio and Lavrov had been postponed. It was noted that the reasons for the postponement of the meeting are not known. According to the source of the TV channel, Lavrov and Rubio have different opinions about the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.

On the same day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the possible postponement of the summit, said that there was an understanding between Putin and Trump, but it was impossible to postpone what had not been fixed. According to him, the exact dates were not initially determined.

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