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(Moscow = Yonhap News) Correspondent Yoo Cheol-jong = US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold talks via video call on the 7th, Interfax News reported on the 4th by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. cited and reported.
Spokesperson Peskov said, “I confirm” the news agency’s request to confirm the schedule for the summit between the US and Russia on the 7th.
“Communications between the two leaders will take place on the evening of the 7th,” Peskov, a spokesman for RIA Novosti, said. He added that communication would be done through a video communication network.
TAS News also reported that on the 7th, the leaders of the US and Russia would make a call using a confidential video communication network.
At the first face-to-face meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, in mid-June, the US and Russia leaders agreed to continue working-level negotiations to maintain strategic stability and to make efforts to improve bilateral relations.
However, recently, as rumors of Russia’s preparations for invasion of Ukraine have been raised one after another, speculation has been raised that Biden and Putin will directly communicate and discuss related issues.
Yuri Ushakov, who is Putin’s foreign affairs adviser (seat for foreign affairs), said the previous day that the U.S.-Russian summit would discuss the implementation of the agreement and bilateral issues related to the summit communication agenda in Geneva.
He also introduced that he would talk about international issues such as the Ukraine conflict, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, and Syria, as well as strategic stability (nuclear disarmament) issues.
In addition, Ushakov said that the issue of guarantees regarding NATO’s ban on further eastward movement, which was raised earlier by Putin, will also be discussed.
He stressed the urgent need for legal guarantees to prevent NATO’s further expansion into the former Soviet Union and the deployment of threatening weapon systems in Russia’s neighboring countries, including Ukraine.
He argues that Russia needs written guarantees, saying the West’s oral promises in the late 1980s and early 1990s to the former Soviet Union and Russia that ‘nato’s military infrastructure would no longer move eastward’ were in vain. did.
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