{"id":398503,"date":"2026-09-13T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398503\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:38:17","slug":"putin-rejects-zelenskys-proposal-for-miami-g20-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398503\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Rejects Zelensky\u2019s Proposal for Miami G20 Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian<\/a> President Vladimir Putin<\/a> has rejected a proposal by President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> to hold direct negotiations to end the war on the sidelines of the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit in Miami, Kremlin<\/a> spokesman Dmitry Peskov told AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peskov dismissed the prospect of bilateral talks in the US as \u201cimpossible,\u201d stating that Putin is willing to meet Zelensky exclusively in Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The response follows remarks by Zelensky, in which he expressed readiness to travel to Florida for the gathering scheduled for Dec. 14-15, 2026, provided the Russian leader also attends.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, of course. We must come. We must meet, talk, and make decisions,\u201d Zelensky said in the interview, emphasizing that any high-level encounter must prioritize concrete outcomes rather than rhetoric. \u201cIt is not about words. What I tell him, or what he wants to tell me \u2013 that does not matter. What matters are results.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has not yet confirmed whether Putin will attend the summit in Miami. If convened, such a meeting would mark the first face-to-face encounter between the two leaders since December 2019, when they participated in Normandy Four negotiations in Paris alongside French<\/a> and German<\/a> heads of state.<\/p>\n

Multilateral summit diplomacy and trilateral peace formats <\/p>\n

The Kremlin\u2019s rejection comes amid broader discussions regarding potential diplomatic engagement later this autumn.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, Peskov suggested that a separate trilateral meeting<\/a> involving US President Donald Trump, Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping could occur on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders\u2019 summit in Shenzhen, China, scheduled for Nov. 18\u201319.<\/p>\n

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Russian state news agency TASS reported that the proposal was discussed during a phone call between Putin and Trump on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

Concurrently, Moscow had signaled potential openness to reviving direct negotiations over the war, with Peskov previously stating that trilateral talks involving Ukraine, the US, and Russia<\/a> could resume in the \u201cforeseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Formal trilateral peace negotiations have remained suspended since mid-February 2026, following sessions in Abu Dhabi and Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal by President Volodymyr Zelensky to hold direct negotiations to end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-398503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}