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Investing.com -- Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a "constructive" conversation on Monday to prepare for an upcoming summit between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
The two leaders agreed during a phone call on Thursday to meet soon in Budapest, Hungary, marking their second summit this year. Following that agreement, Lavrov and Rubio were tasked with discussing preparations for the meeting.
"A constructive discussion took place regarding possible concrete steps to implement the understandings reached during the October 16 telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement.
The ministry provided no additional details about the conversation between the two top diplomats or specific agenda items for the planned summit.
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