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The Kremlin is working on plans for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to hold their first summit in a “neutral” country in Europe within a few months of the presidential inauguration, an approach designed to echo historic attempts at dealmaking and rapprochement between Washington and Moscow.

“The first meeting should take place neither in Russia nor in the US but in a neutral third country,” said an official in the Russian presidential administration. “It certainly won’t be London, and it won’t be Germany, because they’re both too hostile to Russia. It can’t be France – that would be seen as inappropriate because they have an election campaign going on. What about Iceland?”

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