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US President Donald Trump supports Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s proposal to hold a summit of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the American ambassador to Moscow said in an interview with a Russian news service.
Trump sent a message recently to President Putin describing the initiative as a “good idea,†the Interfax news service cited US Ambassador John Sullivan as saying in
the interview published on Wednesday.
The agenda and details of the time and place for the meeting are now under discussion,
he said.
Putin proposed during a visit to Israel in January that the leaders of Russia, the US, the UK, China and France should hold a summit this year, saying the five nuclear-armed powers have “a special responsibility for the preservation of civilisation.†The US, France and China agreed to the summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in March.
The US also plans to restart arms-control talks soon with Russia, including on the landmark New START nuclear treaty that limits the two countries’ strategic arsenals and is set to expire next February,
Sullivan said.