Biden and Putin likely to discuss Vienna talks – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
CNN reported on Wednesday that US President Joe Biden had a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
The White House also issued a statement confirming the meeting today, announcing that Biden would have a telephone conversation with Putin on December 30. In this telephone conversation, the two sides discuss a range of issues, including future diplomatic relations between the two countries.
According to Sputnik news agency, a spokesman for the Russian presidential office (Kremlin) also confirmed Putin-Biden talks in a statement, saying: “This consultation is scheduled to take place on Thursday night.”
Earlier, AFP quoted the White House as saying that the United States and Russia would discuss arms control and the situation in Ukraine on January 10.
A spokesman for the US National Security Council was also quoted by Reuters as saying that a meeting between Russia and NATO was expected to take place on January 12.
On December 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry released the provisions of Moscow’s security assurances to the United States and NATO, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov later said that the Westerners would do so as soon as possible. Suggestions respond because the situation is extremely critical.
The proposals include security guarantees from both sides, in which Russia has explicitly raised issues such as NATO’s expansion to Eastern Europe and the membership of former Soviet satellites, including Ukraine and Georgia, as part of the Kremlin’s red lines. .
All this while Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Sunday this week that if the West does not accept Moscow’s proposals, there are different options for the Kremlin to expand NATO to the east, and this is in line with the proposals made by Depends on Russian military experts.
“Russia’s response can be very different, depending on the suggestions that our military experts make to me,” Putin said.
The European Union and the United States have accused Russia of mobilizing troops on the border with Ukraine and, together with Kiev, claim that Moscow is preparing for an attack. Russia, however, says it has the right to move troops within its territory wherever it wants.
Russia-Ukraine relations have been strained since the 2014 coup in Kiev and the subsequent reunification of the Crimean peninsula with Russia, and tensions have risen recently.
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