The Presidents of the US and Russia have praised their discussion in Geneva but have made little concrete progress at the first such meeting since 2018. Disagreements were stated, said US President Joe Biden, but not in a hyperbolic way, and he said Russia did not want a new Cold War, according to the BBC report.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Biden was an experienced statesman and the two "spoke the same language". The talks lasted four hours, less time than was scheduled.
The two sides agreed to begin a dialogue on nuclear arms control. They also said that they would return ambassadors to each other's capitals - the envoys were mutually withdrawn for consultations in March, after the US accused Russia of meddling in the 2020 presidential election.
Biden said that they did not need to spend more time talking and there was now a genuine prospect to improve relations with Russia. However, there was little sign of agreement on other issues, including cyber-security, Ukraine and the fate of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a penal colony.
Putin hinted at a possible deal on exchanging prisoners, saying he believed compromises could be found. On cyber-attacks, Putin brushed away accusations of Russian responsibility, saying that most cyber-attacks in Russia originated from the US.
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