WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Russia said in a joint statement Thursday that they had held “intensive and substantial” talks during their second meeting in a strategic dialogue aimed at easing tensions between the two the world’s leading nuclear powers.
US Presidents Joe Biden and Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin, whose countries have 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, agreed at a June summit in Geneva to establish a “strategic stability dialogue” to lay the groundwork for a future arms control and risk reduction agreement.
After a first meeting in July, the delegations led by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, American side, and Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov, Russian side, met this Thursday in Geneva and decided that the groups The work put in place as part of this dialogue would focus on defining the principles and objectives of future arms control.
A high-level US official told reporters that for Washington it had been “a very productive meeting.”
(Report Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis, French version Bertrand Boucey)
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