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Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden: "It's about your own interests"
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The summit in Geneva is over: Both Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden were satisfied after the conversation.
Nobody is interested in a new Cold War, said Biden.
It is not about trust, but about your own interests and the confirmation of your own interests.
Putin also described the summit with US President Joe Biden as "extremely constructive".
He and the US president spoke "a common language," Putin said.
Then both took off: Putin's plane took off from the airport around 8 p.m., Biden around 40 minutes later.
What is left after the summit?
The two heads of state have achieved initial convergence on three issues:
Russian and US ambassadors are expected to return to Moscow and Washington.
The
diplomats
returned to their homeland in the spring as tensions between the two countries grew.
The two heads of state agreed on talks on
arms control
: he and Putin wanted to start a "bilateral strategic stability
dialogue
," said US President Joe Biden.
Military experts and diplomats from both countries should work on a mechanism that could lead to the control of new and highly developed weapons.
The US and Russia also want to start talks on
cybersecurity
.
US President Joe Biden said he and Putin had agreed that their governments begin deliberations on the issue.
It should be about addressing specific cases and defining goals that should be taboo for attacks.
Biden said that certain critical infrastructure would have to be excluded.
He also appealed again that responsible states must take action against the perpetrators of ransomware attacks.
However, several points of conflict remained:
Putin defended the
imprisonment of the Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny
. The opposition member deliberately ignored Russian laws. After his hospital stay in Germany, the 45-year-old published videos on the Internet and did not comply with the Russian reporting requirements. "He did what he wanted." He was ready to be arrested.
According to his own statements, US President Joe Biden has indicated to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin that the US will
continue to denounce
human rights violations
in Russia.
He told Putin at the Geneva summit that he had no agenda against Russia.
"It's not about attacking Russia when they violate human rights," said Biden on Wednesday at his press conference following the meeting.
It is about defending democratic values.
It was the first time the two presidents have met since Biden took office in January.
US-Russian relations are worse than they have been since the end of the Cold War because of a number of conflict issues.
ime / dpa / Reuters
