US President Joe Biden will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva, as informed by the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki wrote in a brief statement. The leaders will discuss the full range of pressing issues, as we seek to restore predictability and stability to the US.-Russia relationship.
The meeting between Biden and Putin is expected to strike a different tone compared to what occurred under the Trump administration. The first official in-person talks between former President Donald Trump and Putin were held in the Finnish capital of Helsinki in 2018.
The meeting came only days after the US Justice Department charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democrats in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election and less than a week after Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov held cautious face-to-face talks in Iceland.
The meeting between Blinken and Lavrov are the highest-level in-person talks yet between Washington and Moscow under the Biden administration.
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