The US administration believes the results of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s May 12-14 visit to Russia will also show the prospects for organizing the meeting of the two countries’ presidents. This is what a high-ranking US State Department official informed during a special phone briefing for journalists.

The official didn’t directly answer TASS’s question whether Pompeo plans on considering the organizing of the Putin-Trump meeting during the upcoming meetings with the Russian leader. “We’ll see how the visit goes,” the moderator of the briefing said.

Moreover, he emphasized that the US would like to improve its relations with Russia. The State Department also stated that arms control will be one of the priorities of the Pompeo-Putin meeting.