拜登和普京将在瑞士举行会晤

当地时间周二（5月25日），白宫发表简短声明称：美国总统乔·拜登将与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京于6月16日在瑞士日内瓦举行首次面对面会谈。

白宫称：“双方领导人将讨论一系列紧迫的问题，以求恢复美俄关系的可预测性和稳定性。”

克里姆林宫发表声明称：“我们打算讨论俄美关系的现状和进一步发展的前景、战略稳定问题以及国际议程上的热点问题，包括在与新冠病毒斗争中相互合作和解决区域冲突问题。”

这将是拜登上任以来首次出访国外。

白宫官员说，本周，美国方面已派遣国家安全顾问杰克·沙利文（Jake Sullivan）与俄方官员会晤，敲定拜登和普京会晤的具体细节。

白宫新闻秘书詹·普萨基（Jen Psaki）周二表示，拜登计划在会晤中就乌克兰和白俄罗斯发表讲话。

普萨基说：“预计双方将重点讨论战略稳定问题”，“在未来几周，将会有一系列问题被添加到议程中。”

此次俄美双方领导人会晤是普京在芬兰赫尔辛基会晤时任美国总统唐纳德·特朗普近三年后举行的。

这将是拜登就任美国总统以来与普京的第一次会面。

拜登将于6月初开始首次国际之行，计划访问欧洲，出席在英格兰西南部举行的G7峰会以及在布鲁塞尔举行的北约和欧盟峰会。在这些会议之后，拜登将前往瑞士。

上周，美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯会见了俄罗斯外交大臣谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫，这是自拜登就职以来美俄之间的首次高层会晤。

Biden and Putin summit to take place next month in Switzerland

The first face-to-face meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place next month in Switzerland, the White House confirmed Tuesday, as the administration and the Kremlin finalize arrangements for the summit.

"President Biden will meet with President Putin in Geneva, Switzerland on June 16, 2021. The leaders will discuss the full range of pressing issues, as we seek to restore predictability and stability to the U.S.-Russia relationship," the White House said in a statement.

In its own statement, the Kremlin said, "We intend to discuss the state and prospects of further development of Russian-American relations, problems of strategic stability, as well as topical issues on the international agenda, including interaction in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and the settlement of regional conflicts."

The long anticipated meeting will come at the conclusion of Biden's first international trip since taking office.

The White House dispatched national security adviser Jake Sullivan to Geneva this week to meet with his Russian counterpart, officials said, as details are being hammered out for the meeting between Biden and Putin.

Biden plans to address Ukraine and Belarus during the meeting, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday.

"We expect they will spend a fair amount of time on strategic stability." Psaki said at Tuesday's briefing.

Psaki added that a range of issues could be added to the agenda in the coming weeks.

The high-stakes meeting comes nearly three years after Putin met then-President Donald Trump in Helsinki, Finland. It would be Biden's first meeting with Putin since taking office.

He is scheduled to depart in early June for his first trip abroad, seeking to reassure world leaders at the Group of 7 summit in southwest England and NATO and European Union summits in Brussel of his commitment to traditional American alliances. He would travel to Switzerland following those meetings in the United Kingdom and Brussels.

Last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the first high-level encounter between the US and Russia since Biden took office.