Trump says he will meet Xi, Putin at China APEC summit

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US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he expects to sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during next week's APEC leaders' summit in China to discuss the conflict in Iran and nuclear disarmament.

Speaking to journalists prior to his flight back to Washington from Florida, Trump confirmed his upcoming trip to the country for the summit, scheduled for November 18-19 in the southern technology hub of Shenzhen.

"One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that'll be interesting. We're talking ​a lot of things, including denuclearization, but we'll ​be talking a lot of things. We're trying to end the ‌war ⁠in Iran," he said.

Trump said in October that he was open to three-way arms control talks with Xi and Putin, which he said would focus on denuclearization.

The Wall ​Street Journal ​later reported ⁠that Putin has pitched using a trilateral meeting to discuss an end to Russia's ​long-running war in Ukraine.

Trump said in an ​interview ⁠with CBS' 60 Minutes program that "I believe we're very close to making a deal" to end the Russia-Ukraine ⁠war that ​would result in a "little bit ​different shape Ukraine," without offering specifics.

Source: Reuters