US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he expects to meet with President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen scheduled for November 18-19.

"Well, I'm going to be going to China," he said, "and one of the meetings I think will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that'll be interesting."

He added: "We'll talk a lot of things, including denuclearisation, but we'll be talking a lot of things. We're trying to end the war in Iran."

The Kremlin said on October 21 that this first of its kind trilateral meeting is "being prepared".

This followed a Wall Street Journal report that Putin wanted the three-way talks to broker a peace deal to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. (AFP)




Edited by Tony Sabine