5 hours agoBiden-Putin meeting: Five hours of conversation, but no lunch, surrounded by over 3 thousand agents
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Issues may be difficult, but the environment will be green and quiet, the presidents of the United States and Russia will meet tomorrow at an 18th century residence overlooking Lake Geneva. Joe Biden's first meeting since taking office in January with President [...]
Joe Biden's first meeting since taking office in January with Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to last 4-5 hours or longer, as they will discuss gun control, cyber attacks and election interventions.
An indication of the tense relationship between the two sides is the fact that there will be no lunch and the two leaders will hold separate press conferences instead of a joint one.
“They will not agree” a senior American official told reporters as Biden flew to Geneva.
Putin will be the first to arrive at the residence, where the two leaders will meet with Swiss President Guy Parmelen before starting their conversations in the history library, books written in Chinese, French and Persian or Turkish.
Among the thousands of authors whose works are held at the residence is Charles Picté de Rosmon, the Swiss diplomat who drafted Switzerland's declaration of neutrality, one of the possible reasons why Geneva was chosen for this Samit.
Biden and Putin will be accompanied by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as translators and delegations.
3000-3500 police and security service agents will be deployed in the town usually in peace.
