Putin Says Wants to Find Ways With Biden to Improve Russia-US Ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Friday he’s hoping to enhance deeply broken ties with the United States when he holds his first summit with US counterpart Joe Biden later this month.

The face-to-face assembly in Geneva on June 16 comes amid the most important disaster in ties between the 2 nations in years, with tensions excessive over a litany of points together with hacking allegations, human rights and election meddling.

“We want to discover methods to regularise these relations,” Putin told the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, adding that bilateral ties are currently at a “low level”.

“We will speak about strategic stability, concerning the settlement of worldwide conflicts,” Putin said, noting that disarmament, the coronavirus pandemic and environmental issues will also be on the agenda.

“We have no disagreements with the United States,” Putin stated.

“They only have one disagreement: they want to hold back our development, they talk about it publicly.”

Both Russia and the United States have downplayed expectations of any breakthrough.

Since taking workplace in January, Biden has imposed new sanctions towards Moscow over what US authorities say was Russia’s function within the huge SolarWinds cyber assault and meddling within the 2020 presidential election.

Washington has additionally harshly criticised Moscow for the near-death poisoning and subsequent imprisonment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.