Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone on Wednesday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi about President Donald J. Trump’s upcoming travel to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in China and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s planned visit to Florida for the G20 summit, the State Department said.

According to the department’s readout, the two officials “recalled the bilateral leader-level commitment to a constructive relationship of strategic stability on the basis of respect, fairness, and reciprocity.” They “agreed on the importance of meaningful leader-level conversations to advance goals such as peace and denuclearization, including at any potential trilateral leaders meeting with Russia,” the readout said. The department said the call took place at China’s request.

China’s Foreign Ministry described the call as “positive and constructive.” In its account, Wang said China was ready to strengthen communication and cooperation with the United States and ready for the two sides to support each other in hosting the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting and the G20 Summit. Reuters noted that the Chinese readout did not mention denuclearization or a trilateral summit with Russia.

The president is scheduled to travel to the APEC summit next week, Reuters reported. Rubio told reporters on Tuesday that work was underway to arrange a trilateral meeting of President Trump, Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the summit, and the president said on Sunday that he thought he would meet Xi and Putin in Shenzhen, according to Reuters.