Kremlin says it needs some time to decide if Putin will accept Biden's climate summit invitation

[March 29, 2021]    MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that it would need some time before making a decision about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would attend a climate summit after U.S. President Joe Biden invited him to it.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Governor of Novgorod Region Andrei Nikitin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 24, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS

The White House said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin were among 40 world leaders invited to the April 22-23 summit.

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Andrew Osborn)

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