Putin to meet Obama at G8 summit sidelines in Northern Ireland - aide
MOSCOW. April 15 (Interfax) - President Vladimir Putin has confirmed his readiness to meet his U.S. colleague Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland and recalled that the invitation to Obama to visit Russia remains valid.
The issue of upcoming contacts between the presidents of Russia and the United States was discussed at a Kremlin meeting involving Putin and U.S. National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon.
"The sides agreed that Obama and Putin would meet in Northern Ireland in relation to the G8 summit [in June] and later hold full-scale talks in relation to the G20 summit in St. Petersburg," Russian presidential assistant Yury Ushakov told the press.
He said that Putin again "stressed that we conveyed an invitation quite long ago to Obama to make an official visit to Russia and this invitation remains valid."