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US invites Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend G20 Summit in Miami

Washington, Sep 23 (UNI) The Trump administration has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the Group of 20 summit to be held in Miami in December.
“We’ve invited President Putin to the G20,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Wednesday at a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
"We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with the president but with other world leaders,” he said. “We hope that’s an invitation he’ll accept. There’s an opportunity in December if that happens.”
The G20 summit will take place at the president’s golf resort, Trump National Doral Miami, from Dec. 14-15.
The Kremlin has not yet responded publicly to the invitation, which is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and other European leaders.
Russia remains a member of the G20 but Putin has not attended a summit of the body since 2019. He did attend one session virtually in 2023.
Rubio framed the invitation by saying that Trump was willing to meet with “virtually anyone” and that “in order to solve problems, you have to meet with people you disagree with”.
He said Trump remained open to meeting with Putin one-on-one in other forums, if “there’s a purpose behind the meeting”.
The G20 is a forum of the world’s largest economies and includes the European Union, China, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other major countries.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said earlier this month that he would be ready to travel to the summit and would meet with Putin if he attended.
“We have to come. We have to meet, to speak and make decisions,” he told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in an interview. “It’s not about words. What I will tell him or what he wants to tell me, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. [...] Results matter. That’s it.”
The invitation came before Zelenskyy is to address the United Nations.
Rubio on Wednesday also indicated that he had spoken with Lavrov about the accusations of “hybrid attacks” in Europe, saying that one concern about the war was that “it could metastasize and spread into other places”.
Trump has called on Zelenskyy to halt attacks against Russian oil in order to reduce prices on diesel fuel, which have spiked to almost double of their price last year in the United States ahead of midterm elections for Congress.
Trump and Zelenskyy met on the sidelines of the United Nations on Tuesday for a rare face-to-face discussion of measures to end the war.
Congress last week passed a sweeping sanctions bill against Russia that would also give Trump the authority to levy 100% tariffs against top purchasers of Russian energy exports, including China and India.
Democrats, who mostly opposed the bill, said that it gave Trump too much power to levy tariffs and that they could be used against US allies as well.
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