The call between the two heads of state will come two weeks before negotiations between the two countries scheduled for January 10 in Geneva on nuclear arms control treaties and the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border.
US Presidents Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Poutine will speak on the phone Thursday “to discuss various subjects, including upcoming diplomatic contacts with Russia,” a White House spokeswoman for security issues said on Wednesday. The appeal between the two heads of state will come two weeks before negotiations between the two countries scheduled for January 10 in Geneva on nuclear arms control treaties and the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border, where the West blames Moscow to mass troops for a possible attack.
The Biden administration continues to consult its “European allies and partners” in response to “Russia’s military build-up on the border with Ukraine,” National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne said in a statement. . “Indeed, a telephone interview between Putin and the President of the United States is scheduled tomorrow late in the evening (at Moscow time, editor’s note)”, confirmed Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by the agencies Russian press releases, without giving further details.
Second telephone interview between Biden and Putin in less than a month
This will be the second telephone interview between the two leaders in less than a month. At the beginning of December, Joe Biden threatened Vladimir Putin with sanctions “as he has never seen” in the event of an attack on Ukraine. Moscow, which claims to act only in response to what it describes as Western hostility, recently presented two draft treaties aimed at preventing any NATO expansion, including Ukraine, and ending Western military activities near Russian borders. Sign that the discussions of January 10 will be bitter, the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov has already ruled out any “concession”. The United States had previously warned that some Russian requests were “unacceptable”.
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