For just a few days ago, Trump said he hoped to meet Putin within the next two weeks. But it does not seem to be the case.
When he on Tuesday at the White House gets questions about the matter, he answers:
I do not want to waste my time, so we'll see what happens.
The information about the cancelled meeting came a few hours earlier from a representative of the White House who spoke on condition of anonymity and was reported by, among others, the news agencies AP and AFP.
According to the source, the message came after a phone call between the US and Russia's foreign ministers, Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov. They had the task of arranging the summit in Budapest.
"No further meeting between the ministers, face to face, will be needed, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet President Putin in the near future”, said the source.
The representative calls the conversation despite the outcome "productive". The Kremlin also said on Tuesday that there is no "exact timeframe" for the summit between Trump and Putin.
The presidents met last in August in Alaska to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. But the meeting did not bear fruit.
