With the current relationship between the superpowers at its lowest, this meeting will be a crucial step in moving forward.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the White House, Washington D.C., 22nd September 1959. Khrushchev is on a state visit to the U.S.This time, hopes loom for even a modest improvement on the current U.S.-Russia chill over issues like Ukraine, human rights and cyber attacks.
If there's any city"where business has been done ... it has been Geneva," Legvold said of the two rival countries. That eventually led to a treaty in 1992, which let each country carry out surveillance flights over the other's territory. Under Trump, the U.S. pulled out of the Open Skies Treaty, and the Biden administration announced last month that the U.S. would not rejoin it — alleging repeated Russian violations.
Nevertheless, the city has painstakingly built a reputation for diplomacy, humanitarianism and multilateralism. The International Red Cross was founded here in 1863 to help victims of conflict. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson helped set up the League of Nations — the U.N. predecessor that the U.S.More recently, Geneva has been home to the' European headquarters, its human rights office and scores of U.N.
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