"An additional in-person meeting between the secretary and foreign minister is not necessary," the White House official said, adding that the call was nonetheless "productive."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also called off an expected meeting to arrange the Budapest summit after speaking by phone on Monday.
"There are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future," a White House official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
But Trump has now made yet another abrupt reversal in his bid to end Russia's three-an
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