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Putin to arrive in Geneva on June 16 for Biden summit
Peskov also confirmed the two leaders would meet in the 18th-century Villa La Grange overlooking Lake Geneva.
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US President Joe Biden(Lleft during remarks on the implementation of the American Rescue Plan in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington, DC on March 15, 2021, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin during his working visit to Ivanovo, a town some 300 km outside Moscow, on March 6, 2020. (AFP/Eric BARADAT, Alexey NIKOLSKY )
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ussian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Geneva on June 16, the same day he is set to meet US President Joe Biden there, Russia's TASS news agency quoted his spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Thursday.
Peskov also confirmed the two leaders would meet in the 18th-century Villa La Grange overlooking Lake Geneva, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, AFP reported that US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold their first face-to-face meeting Thursday, during which they will lay the foundations for a new pact, despite Brexit and its consequences in Northern Ireland casting a shadow on the old "special relationship".
Biden -- on his first overseas tour as US president -- and the British Prime Minister are set to agree a modern version of a charter signed by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, that set out post-war goals for democracy, trade and opportunity.
"The world needs this meeting," Johnson wrote in an article released Thursday, saying the "time has come to dispel any sense of gloom".
The new charter "encompasses science, technology and trade" and "underscores our joint commitment to NATO," Johnson said.
But while keen to affirm the strength of the long-celebrated partnership, Biden has reportedly ordered US diplomats to scold Johnson over his handling of Brexit and its effects on the Northern Ireland peace process.
The Times daily reported America's most senior diplomat in Britain, Yael Lempert, told Brexit Minister Lord Frost that the UK government was "'inflaming' tensions in Ireland and Europe with its opposition to checks at ports in the province".
Port checks on deliveries heading into Northern Ireland from mainland Great Britain were agreed as part of the Brexit deal but caused consternation among unionist communities, who say it changes their place within the wider UK.
London suspended checks earlier this year because of threats to port staff, and the protocol has been blamed for the worst violence in years in the British-run province.
Talks to resolve the simmering border row broke up without agreement, and the European Union has threatened the UK with retaliatory action if it refuses to implement post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.
