US ambassador: Any Trump-Putin summit 'would be a ways off'

US ambassador: Any Trump-Putin summit 'would be a ways off'

By Associated Press
Posted: Sun 11:10 AM, Jun 03, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. ambassador to Russia says any meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin "would be a ways off."

Jon Huntsman suggested Sunday on "Fox & Friends" that if a summit were to occur, "the president, at the right time, will say what needs to be said."

Huntsman's statement comes after a report that White House officials were working toward setting up a meeting.

Trump has said he was open to having a summit with Putin, who U.S. intelligence officials have said directed Russian meddling in the 2016 election to help Trump win.

The president has repeatedly said he wants to improve relationships with Moscow.

Huntsman says Trump would not sit down with Putin unless he had issues to discuss "that were aligned with our national interests."

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I really hope it's soon. We have so much to talk with Russia about, resolve, and set a new relationship on sound grounds, and move forward. It's like a huge gap in our foreign policy strategy to have met and wined and dined all these other countries, many of them very small, while not having even one serious hosting in our country with the leader of the second most important country on the planet from both a national security and even economic perspective.