The administration of US President Joe Biden stated that his expected summit with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is expected to last 4 or 5 hours, without including a lunch.
An official in Biden’s administration said when his presidential plane landed in Geneva today, Tuesday: “The Russian-American meeting tomorrow can last 4 or 5 hours, but without a meeting on a piece of bread.”
He explained that the talks will start with a narrow presence, in which, in addition to Biden and Putin, the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and the Russian, Sergey Lavrov, in addition to translators, will participate.
The spokesman added that the expanded meeting will take place with the participation of 5 other officials from each of the two parties.
The meeting in Geneva will mark the first summit between Putin and Biden after the latter assumed the position of US president in January 2021, and the talks will take place at a time when both parties stressed that bilateral relations between Russia and the United States have fallen to the lowest level in many years.
Russian Vice President Yury Ushakov had previously announced that the talks are expected to focus on discussing “issues that represent common irritants in bilateral relations,” noting that the two leaders will discuss strategic stability, combating the pandemic of coronavirus infection “Covid-19”, cybercrime and regional files. Such as the Ukrainian crisis, the situation in the Middle East and the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict in Karabakh.
Source: agencies