Head of the State Department Blinken: the meeting of Presidents Putin and Biden will take place in the near future soon. This was stated by the head of the US State Department, Anthony Blinken, following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Stockholm, RIA Novosti reports.
No specific dates were announced. However, the US Secretary of State noted that he had a frank conversation with Lavrov on a number of issues. He also assured that the results of the talks would be reported to the heads of state of Russia and the United States.
The topics that Blinken and Lavrov discussed in Stockholm, within the framework of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OSCE member states, became known earlier. In particular, it was reported that the ministers discussed the situation with the work of the Russian and US embassies, touched upon the normalization of the crisis in southeastern Ukraine and the process of resuming the Iranian nuclear deal.