President Biden said he raised a number of issues in his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, from Moscow’s aggression toward Ukraine to alleged cyberattacks to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny
GENEVA—President Biden said he raised some of the biggest issues dividing the U.S. and Russia during a summit with President Vladimir Putin, including Moscow’s aggression toward Ukraine, alleged cyberattacks against the U.S. and jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.
“The bottom line is I told President Putin that we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by,” Mr. Biden said at a news conference Wednesday following the summit. Mr. Biden said he called on Mr. Putin to respect human rights and raised the case of a pair of Americans who are imprisoned in the country. He said the two leaders agreed to start a strategic stability dialogue made up of military officials and diplomats. The new group will be focused on arms control, among other things.
The U.S. president also said he presented Mr. Putin with a list of critical infrastructure that he said should be off limits to cyberattacks. The Russian leader, at a separate Wednesday news conference, said he and Mr. Biden had agreed to begin consultations on cybersecurity and return their respective ambassadors to their posts in an attempt to reduce tensions, in addition to continuing talks on arms control.
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