White House: Diplomacy requires us to engage even with countries in conflict
“Diplomacy requires us to interact with different countries, even if we have strong differences with them,” Biden told reporters Friday evening local time. We have explicitly condemned China’s human rights abuses, but we have cooperated with them in other areas.
“We are working with Russia as part of the P5 + 1 to advance the Iran nuclear deal,” he said. There is no doubt that reaching this agreement will make the world safer. So diplomacy means interacting with different countries, even those with strong differences.
A White House spokesman said in response to a reporter’s question whether Joe Biden would welcome the arrival of Iranian oil to the United States to reduce gasoline prices after a possible deal was signed, adding that we have not yet reached the final stage of the nuclear deal. So we will talk about this when we get to this point.
In another part of his speech, he said that US President Joe Biden is still ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but now is not the right time for that.
The White House spokesman added that “we do not want to harm Russia or its people, we just want to put pressure on the Russian system and financial sector because of Putin’s actions.”
Earlier, the State Department spokesman also said in another part of his speech in line with Washington’s intimidating policies on the progress of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program that blocking Iran’s access to nuclear weapons is still in our interests.
Ned Price claimed that Russia’s attack on Ukraine should not give Iran the green light to build a nuclear bomb.
Criticizing the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that his country recognizes the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and signed cooperation and friendship agreements with the leaders of those republics at the Kremlin Palace.
In a speech on Russian national television on the morning of Thursday, February 24, Putin announced military action in Donbas and called on Ukrainian forces to lay down their weapons and go home.
Reacting to Putin’s move, US President Joe Biden issued a statement saying the world would hold Russia accountable. Putin has chosen a pre-planned war that will result in catastrophic casualties and human suffering.
The president also spoke after talks with members of the Group of Seven, saying that the Russian military had launched a brutal attack on the Ukrainian people, calling it unreasonable, unnecessary and pre-planned, and calling Vladimir Putin an aggressor. And announced that we would impose new sanctions on Moscow.