The United States will invite Russian president Vladimir Putin to a G20 summit in Miami, according to a U.S. official said—but Donald Trump doubts his counterpart will attend.
The United States is this year’s host of the Group of 20 major economies and Trump has promised a grandiose summit in December in his adopted home state of Florida. A senior Trump administration official stated:
All G20 members will be invited to attend ministerial meetings and the leaders’ summit.
However Trump—who supports including Putin—seemed unaware of any invitation when questioned later by a reporter:
I don’t know that he’s coming. I doubt he’d come, to be honest with you… If he came, it would be probably very helpful.
Earlier in the day, the Kremlin said that Putin had not yet decided if he would attend. “No such decisions have been made yet,” according to official spokesman Dmitry Peskov in Moscow.
