One does not link climate protection to any events, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov of the Interfax news agency on Wednesday. His country is acting thoughtfully and consistently on this issue. “Our energy balance is a lot greener than that of many other countries,” he claimed. Russia is aware of its responsibility.
Putin himself had only sent a video message to the summit meeting and promised to do more to preserve the forests, even in the face of the severe natural fires in Russia. However, the 69-year-old refrained from traveling himself because of the corona pandemic. Biden had described the absence of the heads of state of Russia and China as a mistake.
Peskov also said that Putin could explain Russia’s climate policy to Biden at the next meeting. After their summit on June 16 in Geneva, at which new nuclear disarmament talks were also agreed, the Kremlin said that there was mutual agreement on continuing contacts. There is no appointment. On the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a brief conversation with Biden. The relationship between the two largest nuclear powers is considered to be worse than it has been since the Cold War.
The head of the US foreign intelligence service, the CIA, William Burns, has also been in Moscow for talks since Tuesday. The head of the Russian foreign espionage SWR, Sergej Naryshkin, announced that both had talked about cooperation. Specifically, it was also about the fight against terrorism. Details were not disclosed. Burns also met Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev.