Power relations Biden and Putin hold conference call in the evening – aim to promote dialogue and diplomacy, countries say

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The United States presidential Joe Biden and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin a conference call is scheduled to be held today at 10.30 pm Finnish time.

The U.S. administration said the initiative for the conference call came from Putin. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Thursday to a Russian news agency To the cupthat the initiative came from Putin.

According to an announcement by the White House last night, a conference call is scheduled to discuss a number of issues, including diplomatic relations.

This is the second inter-presidential call in a month.

Last At times, relations between Russia and the United States have been tense due to the situation in Ukraine. Russia has concentrated tens of thousands of troops near the Ukrainian border, raising fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia has denied any intentions to attack.

Putin said Thursday he was convinced that an effective dialogue between Russia and the United States was possible.

“I am convinced that we can move forward and create an effective dialogue between Russia and America based on mutual respect and consideration for the national interests of both countries,” Putin said in a holiday message to world leaders.

Putin’s spokesman Peskov told reporters that Russia wants to resolve its differences with the United States in talks. He also said there will be no public stake in the phone conversation. He added that the late date of the conference call (11:30 p.m.) is not a problem for Putin.

“It’s not a problem for him, as he often continues to work actively so late at night,” Peskov said, according to Tassi.

A U.S. administration official, for his part, told reporters Biden said the U.S. was ready for diplomacy and a forward-looking diplomatic path.

“But we are also ready to respond if Russia moves forward with a new attack on Ukraine, and we remain very concerned about Russian forces near the Ukrainian border,” Biden plans to say, according to the official.

Previously it was reported this week that the United States and Russia will hold talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 10th. However, the main topic of the meeting will be nuclear agreements. The talks are part of a strategic security debate that began between Biden and Putin in June in Geneva.

In addition, Russia and NATO will meet on January 12, and a day later, representatives of Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are scheduled to meet.

In 2014, Russia took over the Crimean Peninsula, which belongs to Ukraine, and in the same year a war broke out in eastern Ukraine, involving Ukraine and Russian-backed rebel forces.

Russia has demanded security guarantees from the United States and demanded that NATO’s military alliance no longer expand to the east, for example to Ukraine and Georgia. The United States and NATO have not agreed to Russia’s demands.