Kremlin says date and location of Putin-Biden summit not yet decided

[April 26, 2021]    MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia and the United States had not yet agreed on a date and place for a summit meeting of President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin and that many factors still needed to be looked at before it is finalised.

Russian and U.S. state flags fly near a factory in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov

A Kremlin aide said on Sunday that the meeting could happen in June, the RIA news agency reported. Russia's Kommersant newspaper, citing unnamed sources, said Biden had offered Putin to meet on June 15-16 in a European country.

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Katya Golubkova)

[© 2021 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.]

Copyright 2021 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.  Thompson Reuters is solely responsible for this content.