Friedrich Mertz did not rule out a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Miami, which will be held on December 14-15.
"If he [Vladimir Putin] comes, I will not deny the opportunity to speak," said the German chancellor in an interview with Westfalenpost.
At the same time, on November 3, Mertz said that if Putin is invited to the summit, Zelensky should also be present at the negotiating table.
The Kremlin has not yet commented on the possibility of Putin's trip to Miami. Answering a similar question in an interview with Pavel Zarubin for the Vesti information system, Dmitry Peskov said that he "will not run that far."