US President Joe Biden pledged that during their first summit scheduled for June 16 in Geneva, US President Joe Biden would inform his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that Washington would not stand idly by and let it violate human rights.
“I will meet President Putin in two weeks in Geneva, and I will tell him clearly that we will not remain idly by while they violate these rights,” Biden said in a speech just before Memorial Day, a public holiday in honor of the fallen soldiers for the nation.
The Democratic president said that he had a long conversation on the phone last February with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, and said he had clearly informed him that “we have no other choice but to defend human rights all over the world, so that’s us.”
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Biden will meet his Russian counterpart on June 16 in Geneva, Switzerland, in a phase of acute tension between the two major powers.
Biden has repeatedly affirmed his adherence to dialogue, and although he had promised to punish Russia “if it continued to interfere in our democracy,” leading to describing his Russian counterpart as a “murderer,” he confirmed his lack of intention “to cause escalation and conflict.”