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Wall Street Journal: Putin, Obama set to meet on G-20 summit sidelines

Published Aug. 31, 2016 at 3:10 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the UN conference on climate change - COP21, on November 30, 2015 at Le Bourget, on the outskirts of the French capital Paris.

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MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama will meet in China in early September, a spokesman for the Kremlin said on August 31.

It is “highly likely” the two leaders will meet on the sidelines of a Group of 20 major economies summit in China in the first week in September, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, as reported by Interfax news agency.