Biden-Trump meeting, White House spokeswoman: This is what's supposed to happen.

Mr. Beden, will welcome the country's next president at the Oval Office, a traditional welcome the presidents perform in the evacuation, which Mr. Trump skipped in 2020, when he lost the race for re-election.

“He believes in our norms and institutions, he believes in the peaceful transfer of power“, White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday about President Biden's decision to invite Mr Trump to meet.

This is what is supposed to happen“, she added.

President Biden and President-elect Trump have sharply criticised each other for years. Their teams have very different attitudes on politics, on climate change issues, on those related to Russia to trade.

Mr. Biden, 81, has portrayed Mr. Trump as a threat to democracy, while Mr. Trump, 78, has portrayed Mr. Biden as unable.

President-elect Trump has made unconfirmed claims to manipulate the 2020 presidential elections.

Before the meeting at the White House scheduled to take place at about 11 o'clock in Washington, Mr. Trump will meet with republican lawmakers as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Mr. Biden intends to use the meeting to show continuity, but the transition from one administration to another is partially blocked.

According to the White House, Mr. Trump's team has not yet signed the agreement that would enable people of his future administration, access to objects and government information.

“The lawyers of the Trump-Vance transition team are continuing to engage constructively with the Beden-Haris administration lawyers over all the agreements envisioned by the Presidential Transition Act”, said Brian Vance, a spokesman for Mr. Trump's transition, referring to the law regulating the transfer of power.

Valerie Smith Boyd, director of the Partnership Centre for Presidential Transition, a nonprofit organisation that advises future administrations, said the agreement underlines that the United States has only one president until January 20th, as well as includes signing ethical regulations not to benefit from information made available during the transition period.

This agreement must be signed to start interaction with federal agencies“, she said. “Everything depends on this” thing.

The odds are that Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump will discuss a host of topics, including foreign policy.

The outgoing president may request Mr. Trump to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia. American support for Kiev has been questioned after Mr. Trump's victory.

Meanwhile, the elected president has pledged to end the war soon, but without explaining how he will do so.

Mrs. Jean-Pierre refused to elaborate on issues to be discussed at the meeting between the two leaders.

This will be the first meeting between Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump since the debate between them in June, when the democratic president had not yet withdrawn from the race.

Mr. Biden's poor appearance raised concerns among the Democrats over his old age and led to his departure from the presidential race.

After this development, Mrs. Harris was chosen as a candidate of the Democrats for president. She led a brief campaign that ended with her loss on November 5th. / VOA