Secretary of State Anthony Blinken held talks with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky ahead of the virtual Russia-US summit. State Department spokesman Ned Price announced this on December 6.
“When I went to the briefing, the secretary of state was in touch with President Zelenskiy,” Price told reporters at the briefing.
Information about negotiations with Blinken ahead of the summit of Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden was confirmed by the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in his Twitter… According to him, Kiev and Washington agreed to act in coordination.
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will hold video link talks on December 7. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, there will be no live broadcast of the leaders’ communication. The video message will be held behind closed doors.
The topics of the talks will be the situation in Ukraine and the increased activity of NATO. The parties will also discuss Afghanistan, consider topics on the international agenda. In addition, the conversation will touch upon the issue of bilateral relations, as well as the implementation of the agreements reached during the previous meeting in Geneva.
On December 6, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that during the upcoming talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, American leader Joe Biden intends to raise the issue of stabilizing relations between the two states.
According to Psaki, the current US administration is trying not to intensify the escalation in relations with Russia, but, on the contrary, to stabilize them as soon as possible.
On December 4, US President Joe Biden announced that he would not accept anyone’s “red lines” on the issue of Ukraine and intended to have a “long conversation” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Source: IZ
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