Amid the disagreement with Russia over the United States' withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to visit Washington in early 2019, according to National Security Adviser John Bolton, Fox News reported Friday.
"We have invited President Putin to Washington after the first of the year for, basically, a full day of consultations," Bolton told a news conference in George on Friday morning. "What the scheduling of that is we don't quite know yet."
The U.S. and Russia have disgreed over Russia's violations of the INF, which has led to President Donald Trump planning to pull out of the nuclear treaty.
"It is the American position that Russia is in violation [of the INF]; it is Russia's position that they are not in violation," Bolton told a news conference. "So, one has to ask how do you convince the Russians to come back into compliance with obligations that they don't think they're violating."
Bolton, visiting Putin in Moscow this week, has announced Trump would meet Putin in Paris on Nov. 11 for the commemoration of the end of World War I.