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		</div><p>Theresa May is to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two leaders attend the G20 summit in Osaka, Downing Street has said.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the meeting on Friday did not represent a normalisation of relations with Moscow in the wake of last year’s Salisbury nerve agent attack and other “malign” Russian actions.</p>
<p>“The Prime Minister’s position on Salisbury and Russia’s wider pattern of malign behaviour is well-known,” the spokesman said.</p>
<blockquote><p>This meeting does not represent a normalisation of relations</p></blockquote>
<p>“As she has said, we remain open to a different relationship but that can only happen if Russia desists from activity that undermines international treaties and collective security, like the attack in Salisbury.</p>
<p>“This meeting is an important opportunity to deliver this message leader to leader to ensure the UK’s position is fully understood.</p>
<p>“Of course, there are matters of international security where we continue to engage with Russia when it is in our national interest to do so.</p>
<p>“This meeting does not represent a normalisation of relations.”</p>
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<p>The talks in Japan will mark the first time the two leaders have spoken face to face since the last G20 gathering in Argentina at the end of 2018.</p>
<p>Relations between Russia and the West have been severely strained since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.</p>
<p>Last year Mrs May secured the expulsion of more than 150 Russian diplomats from over 20 countries in response to the the Salisbury attack.</p>
<p>Britain blamed Russia for the attempted poisoning of the former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia using the deadly Novichok nerve agent, a claim Moscow strenuously denied.</p>
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