Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will meet today
At the Villa La Grange on the shores of Lake Geneva, everything is ready for the reception of high-ranking guests: In a matter of hours, a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joy Biden will start in the walls of an 18th-century manor house, which Moscow and Washington hope will allow them to" unfreeze " relations between the powers that have reached the worst level since the Cold War.
At the same time, neither Moscow nor Washington expect a breakthrough. The Geneva meeting is rather a reconciliation of hours, where the very fact of the conversation is important.
The agreed agenda of the five-hour talks is divided into blocks-from a general assessment of the US-Russia dialogue and issues of strategic stability through specific unresolved issues of bilateral relations (so-called irritant topics) to regional issues. It is possible that the conversation will follow a different scenario. The organizers remind that Putin and Biden can, at their discretion, touch on any topic in any order.
The program includes a coffee break, but does not include a joint lunch and a joint press conference between Putin and Biden. At the end of the talks, the leaders of Russia and the United States will talk to the press separately.
Both Putin and Biden, by the way, preceded the meeting in Geneva with extensive public speeches: the Russian leader gave a large interview to NBC, in which he commented on the pain points in relations with America, and Joe Biden met with journalists following the NATO summit and also answered questions about Russia.
In Geneva, when receiving guests, all the details are taken into account: florists, for example, did not make out bouquets in the colors of the flags of Russia and the United States, betting on harmony and neutrality - white and green..
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Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will meet today
At the Villa La Grange on the shores of Lake Geneva, everything is ready for the reception of high-ranking guests: In a matter of hours, a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joy Biden will start in the walls of an 18th-century manor house, which Moscow and Washington hope will allow them to" unfreeze " relations between the powers that have reached the worst level since the Cold War.
At the same time, neither Moscow nor Washington expect a breakthrough. The Geneva meeting is rather a reconciliation of hours, where the very fact of the conversation is important.
The agreed agenda of the five-hour talks is divided into blocks-from a general assessment of the US-Russia dialogue and issues of strategic stability through specific unresolved issues of bilateral relations (so-called irritant topics) to regional issues. It is possible that the conversation will follow a different scenario. The organizers remind that Putin and Biden can, at their discretion, touch on any topic in any order.
The program includes a coffee break, but does not include a joint lunch and a joint press conference between Putin and Biden. At the end of the talks, the leaders of Russia and the United States will talk to the press separately.
Both Putin and Biden, by the way, preceded the meeting in Geneva with extensive public speeches: the Russian leader gave a large interview to NBC, in which he commented on the pain points in relations with America, and Joe Biden met with journalists following the NATO summit and also answered questions about Russia.
In Geneva, when receiving guests, all the details are taken into account: florists, for example, did not make out bouquets in the colors of the flags of Russia and the United States, betting on harmony and neutrality - white and green..
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