During the meeting in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American colleague Joe Biden can achieve mutual understanding and come to agreements on some issues, including cybersecurity and arms control. Such expectations in an interview with Lente.ru shared the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov.
“We are in the fastest of preparatory work. Preparation is carried out both by the content of this contact, and organizational issues have not yet been worked out and not settled,” said Ryabkov.
According to the diplomat, the Foreign Ministry seeks to create all the necessary prerequisites for the meeting in Geneva to have passed productively and led to certain decisions. Ryabkov stressed that the arrangements between the leaders of Russia and the United States can “stop the slipping of bilateral relations and further into the punching, in the swamp of problems and begin to stabilize them a little, find the foci of normality in our relationship.”
As one of the possible directions, the area of information and communication technologies and cybersecurity was called as one of the possible directions for such agreements. The diplomat recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin even prepared a program of bilateral work with the United States in this field.
In addition, the important sphere for the interaction of the two countries remains the control of arms, added Ryabkov. “Here, all the international community, in my opinion, is waiting for from Russia and the United States, from the two largest nuclear powers, the launch of a structured, regular dialogue on the situation in the field of strategic stability,” the diplomat said. The deputy head of the Foreign Ministry said that the Russian side had already passed the US list of proposals on topics, but did not receive the answer yet.
Meeting of the Presidents of Russia and the United States will be held on June 16 in Geneva.
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