MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/. Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on a Financial Times report claiming that the United States had allegedly canceled a Budapest summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump after Moscow sent a memorandum on Ukraine.
The newspaper also alleged that the conversation between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio regarding the summit’s preparations was "tense."
"I would not like to comment on this newspaper report, I just suggest that everyone recall the wording used in the statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the US State Department following the conversation between Lavrov and Rubio," he said in response to a request for comment. "There were completely different wordings and assessments."
On October 16, Trump, after a telephone conversation with Putin, said that they had agreed to meet soon in Budapest. Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said that Moscow and Washington would start preparing a new summit without delay.
On October 23, Trump said the meeting with Putin was postponed indefinitely. According to the US president, it seemed to him that the next round of talks would not be able to achieve "what is needed."
