3 hours agoBiden-Putin Summit: It will last up to five hours in a cottage without food
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)There may be major issues to discuss, but the environment for the American president and his Russian colleague at an 18th-century magnificent villa overlooking Lake Geneva will be luxuriant and peaceful. The first face-to-face meeting between Joe Biden at the presidency and Russian counterpart Vladimir [...]
The first face-to-face meeting between Joe Biden at the presidency and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin could last four to five hours or more.
Some of the topics they will discuss are the control of weapons, cyber attacks and election intervention.
However, there will be no meals, and the Russian and American presidents will hold separate press conferences, a sign of strained relations.
“Without breaking bread”, a senior American official told reporters as Biden flew to Geneva for talks that were due to begin around 13:00 in Villa La Grange, an elegant grey palace surrounded by a park of 30 hectares.
Putin arrives first, and he and Beden will first meet with Swiss President Guy Parmeli. Later, the Russian and American president will talk in the library where old books are preserved in Chinese, French, Persian and Turkish.
State Secretary Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will accompany Biden and Putin.
About 3.5 thousand police officers are located in a different Swiss peaceful city.
Among the thousands of books in the villa is that of Charles Piquet de Rochemont, a diplomat who drafted the Swiss Declaration of Eternal Neutrality ? an additional reason for the choice of Geneva as the summit's site, Croatia's Hina news agency broadcast.
