The administration of President Barack Obama conveyed its opposition to Japan over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in mid-November in New York, a diplomatic source said Sunday. On Monday, Abe dismissed the report as false.
Washington urged Tokyo not to go ahead with such an unprecedented meeting, saying the 70-year-old businessman had not yet assumed the presidency, the source said.
Despite Washington's opposition, Abe became the first foreign leader to hold a face-to-face meeting with Trump when he made a stopover in New York en route to Peru to attend a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
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