US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin will meet on the sidelines of the annual APEC summit in Shenzhen on November 19.
During the negotiations, most of the attention will be devoted to the development of a nuclear arms control agreement. Among the topics may also be the war in Iran and the situation around North Korea.
"The president even indicated that he was not going to discuss Ukraine during this meeting. We have a separate format - you know about it - within which we recently held many meetings with the Russians; However, China is not actually involved in this format, so it would probably not be appropriate to discuss the Ukraine issue there," the American official added.