Putin’s presence at the world video climate summit shows that he remains open to dialogue with the United States, U.S. News commented Monday on a speech Putin will give at the video world climate summit to be held in the coming days.
According to RIA Novosti on Monday (April 19), the Kremlin press service said that President Vladimir Putin accepted Biden’s invitation to attend the video climate summit on April 22 and will deliver a speech at the meeting on the same day.
“(At the meeting) Putin will elaborate on Russia’s approach to establishing broad international cooperation to counter the negative effects of global climate change,” the report said.
It is reported that in addition to the Russian head, U.S. President Joe Biden has invited 40 leaders of different world countries, including Britain, Germany, Australia, France, Turkey, India, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and China, to attend the WorldVision Climate Summit on April 22-23.
TASS reported that the head of the Kremlin press service Dmitry Peskov (Дмитрий Песков) stressed that Putin will give a live speech instead of delivering a recorded one.
According to reports, Russia did not make a decision to attend the world climate summit hosted by Biden until today. Just the day before, the Kremlin said that the Russian side will decide whether Putin will participate in the summit only after it is familiar with all the details of the meeting.
“Unfortunately, it is only in the last few days that we have started to get answers to questions about it, and we need to analyze them carefully before we can make a decision on whether the president will participate (in the climate summit),” said Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
U.S. News reported on Monday (April 19) commented that Putin’s attendance at the WorldVision climate summit showed that both countries remain open to dialogue with the United States despite the new sanctions they have imposed on each other in the past few days. He did not accept Biden’s invitation to the bilateral summit, but neither did he say no.
Putin retaliated on Thursday (April 15) hours after the Biden administration announced sanctions against more than 30 Russian individuals and entities and the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats.
In addition to expelling the 10 U.S. diplomats, Russia banned eight senior U.S. officials from traveling to Russia, including U.S. Attorney General Garland, Biden’s chief domestic policy adviser Condoleezza Rice and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry also issued a threat that Washington must abandon its confrontational course with Russia or else a series of decisions that would be painful for the United States would be forthcoming.
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