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Russia regrets US decision not to support Putin-Biden talks

Putin said last week that he and Biden should hold such talks in the coming days after diplomatic ties sank to a new post-Cold War low following Biden's comments in an ABC interview.

News Desk (Reuters)
Moscow, Russia
Mon, March 22, 2021

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Russia regrets US decision not to support Putin-Biden talks Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) and US Vice President Joe Biden (2nd right) meet on March 10, 2011 with their delegations in Moscow. (AFP/Alexei Druzhinin)

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ussia said on Monday that a US refusal to organise live online talks between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden after the US president said he believed his Russian counterpart was a killer amounted to a serious missed opportunity.

Putin said last week that he and Biden should hold such talks in the coming days after diplomatic ties sank to a new post-Cold War low following Biden's comments in an ABC interview.

"We note with regret that the American side has not supported (Putin's) proposal to hold talks with US President Biden...to discuss problems that have built up in bilateral relations and also the theme around strategic (nuclear) stability," Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement.

"Another opportunity has been missed to search for a way out of the dead end in Russian-American relations caused by Washington. Responsibility for this lies entirely with the United States."

Russia's ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, arrived in Moscow on Sunday for discussions on how to address sliding US-Russia relations after Moscow recalled him for talks.

On Monday, Antonov was spotted leaving the foreign ministry building, but declined to comment, the TASS news agency reported.

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