{"id":19118,"date":"2021-06-16T19:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/06\/16\/biden-putin-set-consultations-on-updating-nuclear-pact\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:32:10","slug":"biden-putin-set-consultations-on-updating-nuclear-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2021\/06\/16\/biden-putin-set-consultations-on-updating-nuclear-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Putin set consultations on updating nuclear pact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GENEVA \u2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin says he and U.S. President Joe Biden agreed in a \u201cconstructive\u201d summit Wednesday to return their nations\u2019 ambassadors to their posts and begin negotiations to replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/02\/04\/us-extends-sole-remaining-nuclear-arms-treaty-with-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">the last remaining treaty between the two countries<\/a> limiting nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin said there was \u201cno hostility\u201d during the talks that wrapped up more quickly than expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two sides had said they expected to meet for four to five hours but spent less than three hours together, including an opening meeting with just the two presidents and each one\u2019s top foreign aide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it was over, Putin had first crack at describing the results at a solo news conference, with Biden to follow with his own session with reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin acknowledged that Biden raised human rights issues with him, including the fate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Putin defended Navalny\u2019s prison sentence and deflected repeated questions about mistreatment of Russian opposition leaders by highlighting U.S. domestic turmoil, including the Black Lives Matter protests and the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin held forth for nearly an hour before international reporters. While showing defiance at queries about Biden pressing him on human rights, he also expressed a significant measure of respect for Biden as an experienced political leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian leader noted that Biden repeated wise advice his mother had given him and also spoke about his family \u2014 messaging that Putin said might not have been entirely relevant to their summit but demonstrated Biden\u2019s \u201cmoral values.\u201d Though he raised doubt that the U.S.-Russia relationship could soon return to a measure of equilibrium of years past, Putin suggested that Biden was someone he could work with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe meeting was actually very efficient,\u201d Putin said. \u201cIt was substantive, it was specific. It was aimed at achieving results, and one of them was pushing back the frontiers of trust.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin said he and Biden agreed to begin negotiations on nuclear talks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/06\/13\/biden-putin-meeting-could-set-stage-for-new-era-in-arms-control\/\" target=\"_blank\">potentially replace the New START treaty<\/a> limiting nuclear weapons after it expires in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington broke off talks with Moscow in 2014 in response to Russia\u2019s annexation of Ukraine\u2019s Crimea and its military intervention in support of separatists in eastern Ukraine. Talks resumed in 2017 but gained little traction and failed to produce an agreement on extending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/06\/02\/before-us-russia-summit-measure-demands-any-new-missile-treaties-add-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">the New START treaty<\/a> during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/06\/02\/before-us-russia-summit-measure-demands-any-new-missile-treaties-add-china\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1231363599.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Before US-Russia summit, measure demands any new missile treaties include China<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Sen. Steve Daines is proposing a higher bar for any new limits on America\u2019s ballistic missile arsenal.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian president said there was an agreement between the leaders to return their ambassadors to their respective postings. Both countries had pulled back their top envoys to Washington and Moscow as relations chilled in recent months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, was recalled from Washington about three months ago after Biden called Putin a killer; U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan left Moscow almost two months ago, after Russia suggested he return to Washington for consultations. Putin said that the ambassadors were expected to return their posts in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin also said the two sides agreed in principle to begin consultations on cybersecurity issues, though he continued to deny U.S. allegations that Russian government was responsible for a spate of recent high-profile hacks against business and government agencies in the United States and around the globe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21167434796741.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"The leaders of the United States and Russia are seated with their nations' flags behind them in a library setting.\" class=\"wp-image-38155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21167434796741.jpg.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21167434796741.jpg.jpg?resize=300,206 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21167434796741.jpg.jpg?resize=768,526 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21167434796741.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,701 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21167434796741.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1052 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Joe Biden, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for media during their meeting at the &#8220;Villa la Grange&#8221; in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Mikhail Metzel\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting in a book-lined room had a somewhat awkward beginning \u2014 both men appeared to avoid looking directly at each other during a brief and chaotic photo opportunity before a scrum of jostling reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden nodded when a reporter asked if Putin could be trusted, but the White House quickly sent out a tweet insisting that the president was \u201cvery clearly not responding to any one question, but nodding in acknowledgment to the press generally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their body language, at least in their brief moments together in front of the press, was not exceptionally warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two leaders did shake hands \u2014 Biden extended his hand first and smiled at the stoic Russian leader \u2014 after Swiss President Guy Parmelin welcomed them to Switzerland for the summit. When they were in front of the cameras a few minutes later\u2014this time inside the grand lakeside mansion where the summit was held \u2014 they seemed to avoid eye contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For months, Biden and Putin have traded sharp rhetoric. Biden has repeatedly called out Putin for malicious cyberattacks by Russian-based hackers on U.S. interests, for the jailing of Russia\u2019s foremost opposition leader and for interference in American elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin has reacted with whatabout-isms and denials \u2014 pointing to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to argue that the U.S. has no business lecturing on democratic norms and insisting that the Russian government hasn\u2019t been involved in any election interference or cyberattacks despite U.S. intelligence showing otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In advance of Wednesday\u2019s meeting, both sides set out to lower expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even so, Biden said it was an important step if the United States and Russia were able to ultimately find \u201cstability and predictability\u201d in their relationship, a seemingly modest goal from the president for dealing with the person he sees as one of America\u2019s fiercest adversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arrangements for the meeting were carefully choreographed and vigorously negotiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden first floated the meeting in an April phone call in which he informed Putin that he would be expelling several Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions against dozens of people and companies, part of an effort to hold the Kremlin accountable for interference in last year\u2019s presidential election and the hacking of federal agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The White House announced ahead of the summit that Biden wouldn\u2019t hold a joint news conference with Putin, deciding it did not want to appear to elevate Putin at a moment when the U.S. president is urging European allies to pressure Putin to cut out myriad provocations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden sees himself with few peers on foreign policy. He traveled the globe as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was given difficult foreign policy assignments by President Barack Obama when Biden was vice president. His portfolio included messy spots like Iraq and Ukraine and weighing the mettle of China\u2019s Xi Jinping during his rise to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has repeatedly said that he believes executing effective foreign policy comes from forming strong personal relations, and he has managed to find rapport with both the likes of Turkey\u2019s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom Biden has labeled an \u201cautocrat,\u201d and more conventional Western leaders including Canada\u2019s Justin Trudeau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But with Putin, who he has said has \u201cno soul,\u201d Biden has long been wary. At the same time, he acknowledges that Putin, who has remained the most powerful figure in Russian politics over the span of five U.S. presidents, is not without talent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s bright. He\u2019s tough,\u201d Biden said earlier this week. \u201cAnd I have found that he is a \u2014 as they say &#8230; a worthy adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden had prepared for his one-on-one by reviewing materials and consulting with officials across government and with outside advisers. Aides said the level of preparation wasn\u2019t unusual. 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