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Putin Says Could Meet Trump in Slovenia, But Choice Not Moscow's Alone

by Reuters

   MOSCOW --

   Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ljubljana would be
   a good place for him to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, but that the
   decision about where to meet was not Moscow's alone.

   Putin made the comments after Slovenia offered its capital as a venue
   for a first meeting between the Russian and U.S. leaders, though no
   date for such a meeting has yet been agreed.

   "As regards Ljubljana, Slovenia in general, it is of course a brilliant
   place to have a dialogue of such a sort. But it doesn't depend only on
   us, it depends on a whole series of circumstances," Putin told
   reporters after meeting Slovenian President Borut Pahor in Moscow.

   "If these meetings ever happen, we don't have anything against
   Ljubljana," Putin added.

   Melania Trump, the U.S. president's wife, grew up in Slovenia.