India, Oct. 21 -- US President Donald Trump currently has no immediate plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, a US official said Tuesday, days after Trump claimed the two leaders would meet within two weeks in Budapest.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by telephone on Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, after Trump's announcement that the top diplomats would meet this week to arrange a Budapest summit.

"An additional in-person meeting between the secretary and foreign minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future," the Trump administration official said on condition of anonymity.

The official described the call between Rubio and...