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Biden and Putin agree at face-to-face Geneva meeting to cut nuclear risks

With U.S.-Russia tensions nearing Cold War-era dimensions, the leaders turned to Swiss diplomacy to improve relations.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin meet at the start of the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, meet at the start of the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (AN/Denis Balibouse/Pool Photo via AP)

GENEVA (AN) — With tensions approaching Cold War-era dimensions, U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to restore ambassadors to each other's nations and to start negotiating a potential replacement for their last nuclear arms treaty at a Swiss-hosted summit.

The two leaders turned to Geneva's multilateral hub of finance and global diplomacy to sort out their adversarial relationship, meeting on Wednesday for less than three hours, shorter than expected, for a stern exchange of views and boundary-setting.

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