17 Jun 2021

Biden and Putin complete first face-to-face meeting

From Morning Report, 8:17 am on 17 June 2021

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have completed their first face-to-face summit meeting.

It took place in Geneva, and ended after that two and a half hours.

Both men claim it was a productive conversation, but in their separate press conferences after the meeting ended, they offered radically different views of the path forward.

RNZ's Washington correspondent Simon Marks reports.