No preparations for a summit meeting of the UN Security Council’s quintet (the five permanent members) are on track at the moment, but some work on this issue is afoot, in the US as well, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said.
"No preparations are in progress at the moment, but in general the question was discussed in the telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden," he said. "The American counterparts said they would work on it. Well, may they go ahead," TASS cited him as saying.
Medvedev is certain that such a meeting, proposed by President Putin, will certainly make sense, because it would bring together "countries that have major influence on world processes, victors in World War II and permanent members of the UN Security Council."
Putin came out with an idea of holding a meeting of the leaders of the five permanent UN Security Council members on January 23, 2020. All other countries in the quintet - China, France, the United States and Britain - supported this proposal. However, the novel coronavirus pandemic put the plans for face-to-face meeting on hold. Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said Moscow remained ready for the event and was waiting for the new U.S. administration’s response to this initiative.
