Putin Says Wants Biden Summit to Help Establish Dialogue
Sunday 13/June/2021 - 12:41 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he expected his summit this week with US President Joe Biden to help establish dialogue between the two countries and to restore personal contacts, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
Biden will meet Putin on June 16
in Geneva for a summit amid strained bilateral relations on a wide array of
issues.
"To restore our personal
contacts, relations, to establish direct dialogue, to create really functioning
mechanisms in those areas that represent mutual interests...," Interfax
quoted Putin as saying in an excerpt from an interview with state television to
be aired later.
