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The first official meeting between Biden and Putin took place: key points and quotes

On June 16, Geneva hosted a meeting between US and Russian Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. The talks ended at about five pm local time and took less time than expected. Initially, it was said that the summit had five hours. A White House spokesman said the meeting took place without a scheduled break, writes Air force.

This is the first face-to-face meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States since the election of Joe Biden. Prior to that, Putin met with Donald Trump in Helsinki in 2018.

Neither the United States, nor Russia, nor Europe expected any breakthroughs from today's meeting.

The Russian leadership, headed by Putin, has for many years been building its foreign policy on the confrontation with the collective West in general and the United States in particular.

Joe Biden, unlike Donald Trump, is a consistent critic of Russian politics, which he confirmed several times in the very last days before his meeting with Putin.

Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have already met, but neither of them were presidents then. This was in 2011, when Biden was Obama's vice president and Putin was prime minister.

At the beginning of the summit, the presidents talked face to face for two hours, after which a break was announced before the meeting of the full delegations.

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As Joe Biden himself and members of his administration said before the meeting, the US President intends to talk with Putin, in particular, about arms control, as well as about the main sore topics in Russia's relations with the United States and the West: about Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, about the persecution opposition and specifically Alexei Navalny, about hacker attacks, traces of which lead to Russia and its state institutions.

In Moscow, before the meeting, they said that its topics would be extremely broad - from “strategic stability” through the fight against climate change to the situation in Syria, Afghanistan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

The negotiations took place at the Villa La Grange in Geneva. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee, and US President Ronald Reagan met there.

Meeting details

The broadcast from the room where the Biden-Putin meeting took place was short. The journalists were escorted out by security. The presidents managed to exchange a few words: Putin thanked Biden for the initiative to hold the meeting and hoped that it would be productive. Biden responded that a face-to-face meeting is always good, writes Liga.net.

Biden arrived at the villa in a car "commonly called 'The Beast'." It is equipped with tear gas grenades, night vision cameras and a built-in satellite phone. The passenger compartment is sealed, and the tires are reinforced - this allows the car to move even with flat tires, reports with the BBC.

A PBS journalist wrote on Twitter that Biden allegedly nodded in the affirmative when asked if Putin could be trusted. The White House has already stated that this is not true. There write: “Biden did not answer any of the questions, but nodded in acknowledgment of the press as a whole.” There was “chaos” in the room as “reporters shouted over each other.”

There will be no joint press conference between the presidents today. Biden considers the option of separate press conferences “optimal.” It will allow the press to talk about all the topics of the meeting. Wherein CNN writes that the Russian Federation insisted on a joint format.

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Biden at the meeting in a wide composition is accompanied by Blinken, National Security Adviser Sullivan, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nuland, US Ambassador to Russia Sullivan and National Security Council experts Green and Kaloudis. Putin is accompanied by Lavrov, foreign policy adviser Ushakov, deputy foreign minister Ryabkov, first deputy defense minister Gerasimov, Russian ambassador to the United States Antonov, as well as deputy head of the presidential administration Kozak and press secretary Peskov, writes ABC.

Journalist with the BBC Steve Rosenberg noted that Putin, who is notorious for being late, showed up in Geneva on time, indicating the importance of the meeting for him: “This meeting puts Putin in the geopolitical spotlight. This is an opportunity to portray Russia as a great power equal to America. But behind closed doors, this could well be an awkward conversation for Putin. Washington accused Moscow of “malicious actions” and a threat to US national security.”

Journalists also noticed that during the meeting, Joe Biden used cards with notes; on social networks they were called “flashcards” and “cheat sheets.”

According to Rossiya24 journalists, Russian journalists were not accredited to Biden's press conference.

Putin's press conference

At a press conference after meeting with Biden, Putin said that they had agreed on the mutual return of ambassadors.

The President of the Russian Federation said that the topic of Ukraine was “touched on,” but not in great detail.

“As far as I understand President Biden, he agrees that the Minsk agreements should form the basis of the settlement in southeast Ukraine.”

The topic of Ukraine's accession to NATO - “this topic was touched upon in passing, there is probably nothing to discuss here,” Putin said.

Putin gave a general assessment of the meeting: “I believe that there was no hostility, the meeting was held in a principled manner. Our assessments differ on many points, but in my opinion, both sides demonstrated a desire to understand each other. The conversation was very constructive."

“We have only one obligation - to promote the implementation of the Minsk agreements,” Putin said.

He spoke about a new Ukrainian project for resolving the situation in Donbass, which, in his opinion, contradicts the Minsk agreements, since the first step allegedly suggests returning Ukrainian troops to their places of permanent deployment, then closing the Ukrainian-Russian border and holding elections in three months.

“What additional obligations can Russia take on? I think the answer is clear,” Putin said.

Putin commented on Biden’s statement about “Putin is a killer.”

“About harsh statements... After that, Biden called me, we explained. These explanations suited me. He invited us to meet. We met,” Putin said.

He noted that he and Biden spoke for two hours, “which doesn’t happen with every leader.”

Putin went on to say that “every day someone is killed on the streets of American cities,” he recalled civilian casualties in Afghanistan, “shootings of clearly civilians from drones in Iraq,” Guantanamo Bay.

“Who is responsible for this? …Are these human rights?” - he asked.

When asked whether it was possible to reach a new level of mutual understanding and trust, Putin responded with a quote from Leo Tolstoy: “There is no happiness in life, there are only lightnings of it. Cherish them." In such a situation there cannot be any kind of family trust, but, it seems to me, the lightning of it has flashed,” Putin said.

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“Andrey, give way to the girl, she’ll light it up right now,” Putin asked to pass the microphone to a dark-skinned journalist. The journalist asked Putin whether he was invited to the White House and about his impressions of Biden as a person. Putin responded that Biden had not invited him to visit, and he himself had not yet made such an invitation, since “the conditions must be ripe for such visits.”

Putin called Biden a very constructive and balanced person - “very experienced, this is immediately obvious.”

“He remembered his family, what his mother talked to him about... These are such important things. They do not seem to be directly related to the matter, but nevertheless... they show the quality of his moral values. This is all quite attractive,” said the Russian President.

Putin said it seemed to him that he and Biden “generally spoke the same language.”

“But this does not mean that we should look into each other’s soul, into each other’s eyes, and swear eternal love and friendship. Not at all. We protect the interests of our countries and peoples. And these relations are always, first of all, pragmatic in nature,” Putin said.

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