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US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed at a “pragmatic” first summit on Wednesday to return ambassadors to each other’s capitals after they were withdrawn earlier this year.
Putin, 68, who was first to brief reporters, said the meeting had been constructive, without hostility, and had showed the leaders’ desire to understand each other.
He also said Russia and the United States shared a responsibility for nuclear stability, and would hold talks on possible changes to their recently extended New START arms limitation treaty.
The discussions at the lakeside Villa La Grange in Geneva lasted less than four hours – far less than Biden’s advisers had said they expected.
Sherwin Bryce-Pease unpacks the story:
