US President Donald Trump said Monday he does not expect to hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when they attend World War I commemorations in Paris at the end of this week.
Trump said he was "not sure we'll have a meeting in Paris -- probably not."
However, they "will be meeting at the G20" summit in Argentina at the end of November, he said.
Expectations have been growing for a new Trump-Putin meeting as tensions pile up over the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and US sanctions against Moscow.
Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton had said during a trip to Moscow in October that the White House wanted a Paris meeting and Putin said he was interested.
Both leaders will be in Paris for the November 11 World War I commemorations, which 60 heads of state and government are expected to attend.
A first bilateral summit took place in Helsinki in July, after which the US president came under strong domestic criticism for adopting a distinctly conciliatory tone despite his own security services' warning that Russia meddled in US elections.
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