{"id":565890,"date":"2021-06-16T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565890"},"modified":"2021-06-16T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:51:16","slug":"biden-putin-touch-on-number-of-topics-declare-meeting-constructive-despite-wide-range-of-issues-remaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-putin-touch-on-number-of-topics-declare-meeting-constructive-despite-wide-range-of-issues-remaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Putin Touch On Number Of Topics, Declare Meeting \u2018Constructive\u2019 Despite Wide Range Of Issues Remaining"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-putin-touch-on-number-of-topics-declare-meeting-constructive-despite-wide-range-of-issues-remaining%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233491283-scaled-e1623871593121.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s hours-long meeting Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland, touched on many topics, but failed to yield \u2013 as expected \u2013 many immediate, concrete results.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Putin spoke for around three hours, falling short of estimates from those in the White House, who suggested the meeting could take four or five hours. The two did not partake in a joint press conference afterwards. Instead, Putin spoke to reporters for nearly an hour and Biden followed shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-agree-return-ambassadors-summit\/\">return<\/a> their ambassadors to their Washington and Moscow posts during the summit, although no official date was announced. Anatoly Antonov, Russian\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., and John Sullivan, Washington\u2019s ambassador to Moscow, were recalled earlier this year after Biden announced new sanctions against Russia due to a cyberattack on government agencies, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/16\/biden-and-putin-speak-after-geneva-summit.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Putin also discussed cybersecurity, two Americans imprisoned in Russia, imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Ukraine and more. While Biden described the meeting as \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cpositive\u201d and Putin declared it to be \u201cvery constructive,\u201d a wide range of issues remain between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On cybersecurity\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A slew of ransomware attacks on companies in the U.S. have been linked to Russian-based groups. One attack <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/10\/biden-darkside-colonial-pipeline-shortages-oil-psaki\/\">against<\/a> Colonial Pipeline shut down operations and sparked fuel shortages across the Southeastern U.S. in May. JBS, the world\u2019s largest meat supplier, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/02\/joe-biden-putin-russia-hacking-jbs-colonial-pipeline\/\">was also hit<\/a> with a ransomware attack in June.<\/p>\n<p>Putin, speaking to reporters first, accepted no responsibility on the subject of cyberattacks linked to Russia. He accused Washington and Western countries of taking part in cyberattacks on Russia and said he agreed with Biden to \u201cbegin consultations on that issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that\u2019s extraordinarily important. And obviously both sides have to assume certain obligations there,\u201d Putin told reporters, though he didn\u2019t offer specifics, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/16\/putin-biden-cybersecurity-494875\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that cyberspace is extraordinarily important in general, and in particular for the U.S. and, to the same extent, for Russia,\u201d Putin continued before going on to accuse the U.S. of not being \u201cparticularly interested in organizing them or looking into\u201d attacks allegedly coming from the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">Biden told reporters that Putin is aware of consequences if ransomware attacks \u2013 and election interference, another topic of the day \u2013 continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows I will take actions, like we did this last time out,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/watch\/biden-consequences-for-russia-if-ransomware-attacks-election-interference-continues-114933317769\">said<\/a>. \u201cWhat happened was, we in fact made it clear that we were not going to continue to allow this to go on \u2026 He knows there are consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden said Putin\u2019s \u201ccredibility worldwide shrinks\u201d with situations like this \u2013 and speculated that this matters very much to the Russian president. He also noted that Putin was given a list of 16 critical infrastructure items that are off-limits for cyberattacks, promising an American response if such attacks didn\u2019t cease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would it be like if we engaged in activities that he has engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country that is desperately trying to make sure that it maintains its standing as a major world power. And so it\u2019s not just what I do, it\u2019s what the actions that other countries take \u2013 in this case Russia \u2013 that are contrary to international norms. It\u2019s the price they pay,\u201d the American president added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On human rights issues, Navalny\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Putin repeatedly dodged human rights-related questions <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/joe-biden-geneva-summit-vladimir-putin-human-rights-russia-shootings\/\">and tried to<\/a> turn the tables back over onto the U.S. during comments to reporters. The Russian president slammed America for daily \u201cshootings and killings\u201d and compiled an array of instances that he used to deflect his own country\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the streets of America, every single day there are shootings and killings,\u201d Putin said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have time to open your mouth and you are shot dead. Or, you remember the man who shot the woman in the back, or who drove his car over her? And then there was that shooting at the wedding. Let\u2019s say it was an error, because that happens too \u2014 but shooting helicopters of civilians in Iraq, what was that about? Who is responsible for that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian president also brought up the Jan. 6 riot, where supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol, and the shooting death of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, again deflecting on the imprisonment of Navalny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany countries are going through exactly what we are going through. Let me just repeat: We sympathize with what was happening in the states, but we do not wish that to happen in Russia,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Putin wouldn\u2019t refer to Navalny by name throughout Wednesday\u2019s press conference, instead calling him \u201cthis man.\u201d He claimed Navalny \u201cknew he was violating the law\u201d and \u201cdeliberately\u201d ignored the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did what he wanted to do,\u201d Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yamiche\/status\/1405194451081965570?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared<\/a>. \u201cWhat can you say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Biden decried Putin\u2019s comparison of Navalny to the arrests following the Jan. 6 riot, calling it \u201cridiculous.\u201d The American president said he \u201cmade it clear to\u201d Putin \u201cthat we will continue to raise cases of fundamental human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-pbxEC iIknhy desktop-only teads\">\n<div class=\"sc-pmlFt gkWgml\">\n<div class=\"sc-pRtAn lfmJxf\" readability=\"8\">\n<div id=\"thirdparty01\" data-mpu=\"true\" data-is-video=\"false\" data-tile-name=\"thirdparty01\" data-ad-unit-path=\"\/71347885\/_partner_independent\/in_news\/in_world\/video\/thirdparty01\" data-size-key=\"THIRD_PARTY_ARTICLE_BODY_DESKTOP\" data-refresh-check=\"false\" data-force-bulk=\"true\" data-initialised=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"CLnrnLbvnPECFfEEaAgd-_kCmw\" readability=\"11\">\n<p class>\u201cThe bottom line is I told President Putin that we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by,\u201d Biden explained.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking post and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s hours-long meeting Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland, touched on many topics, but failed to yield \u2013 as expected \u2013 many immediate, concrete results.Biden &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280485,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233491283-scaled-e1623871593121.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden, Putin Touch On Number Of Topics, Declare Meeting \u2018Constructive\u2019 Despite Wide Range Of Issues Remaining","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233491283-scaled-e1623871593121.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden, Putin Touch On Number Of Topics, Declare Meeting \u2018Constructive\u2019 Despite Wide Range Of Issues Remaining","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}