UPDATE: Official says Macron’s visit to SPIEF 2018 under study

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MOSCOW, Oct 16 (PRIME) -- A possibility of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2018 is being worked out, the Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.

“A possibility of the French president’s participation in the St. Petersburg economic forum is being worked out. You know that being in Paris, (Russian President) Vladimir Putin has agreed with Macron that their contacts will be continued. St. Petersburg is being studied as one of the options. We will be glad to see the president of France as a guest of this prestigious international forum,” Peskov said.

A source in the organizational committee of the forum told PRIME earlier on Monday that Macron had confirmed his participation in the St. Petersburg forum.

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