American officials said Tuesday that US President Donald Trump has no immediate plans to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, despite Trump’s recent claim that the two leaders would meet soon in Budapest.

“There are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future," a Trump administration official told Reuters .

The Kremlin also signalled that no such summit was imminent, with spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying it would require “serious preparation."

A meeting between the presidents would typically be preceded by talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but it remains unclear when the two will connect.

Officials told the Associated Press that the summit was postponed after Trump and Putin spo

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