Putin’s video conference with Biden in the works – The date has not been “locked” yet

The organization of the video conference of the presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin and the USA Joe Biden which will take place in the middle of the tensions between the two countries over Ukraine announced on Friday (3/12) the Kremlin.

As stated by his representative Kremlin who clarified that this is a video conference “the work is in progress”.

The date has not been “closed” yet

“The two sides have made their proposals regarding the dates, but they have not been synchronized yet,” Dmitry Peshkov was quoted as saying by the Athens News Agency.

When asked by journalists, he characteristically noted that “The exact date has not yet been decided.”

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said yesterday, Thursday (2/12) that a “contact” between the presidents of Russia and the United States could take place “in the coming days”, without elaborating further.

The announcement came yesterday, the day Russian and US diplomats Sergei Lavrov and Anthony Blinken met amid tensions over Ukraine, with Washington accusing Moscow of plotting to invade the country.

“This meeting” was a good opportunity for the two sides to explain their position to each other clearly and understandably, “Peshkov said today, stressing, however, that” on several issues, the positions differ. “

The reasons for the tension between Washington and Moscow have multiplied in recent months, despite the desire for mitigation shown by the Putin and Biden at their first summit in June in Geneva.

One of the main issues of contention concerns the movements of Russian troops around Ukraine, in the eastern part of which a conflict has been raging since 2014 between Kiev and pro-Russian separatist guerrillas. In recent days, the US, NATO and the EU have not stopped expressing their concerns on this issue.

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