{"id":30816,"date":"2021-04-15T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=30816"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T20:18:33","slug":"vladimir-putin-rejects-joe-biden-invite-to-meet-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/vladimir-putin-rejects-joe-biden-invite-to-meet-in-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin Rejects Joe Biden Invite to Meet in Person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Kremlin announced Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not move forward on an offer from U.S. President Joe Biden to meet in person, at least for the time being, Russian state media outlet RT reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov cited logistical issues as the main reason for rejecting the White House\u2019s offer to meet \u201cin a third country in the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo, a bilateral meeting of course cannot be organized that quickly,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, Putin challenged<\/a> Biden to a one-on-one online debate after the American leader called him a \u201ckiller\u201d and warned Russia would \u201cpay a price\u201d for its international shenanigans, without elaborating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it\u2019s called,\u201d Putin said. \u201cWithout any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe could do it tomorrow or Monday. We are ready at any time convenient for the American side,\u201d Putin suggested.
Biden declined to debate Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s offer reportedly came during a Tuesday phone call<\/a> that Peskov described as \u201cbusinesslike\u201d in which Biden allegedly expressed \u201cconcern\u201d over Russia\u2019s growing military presence on the Ukrainian border and did not<\/a> discuss the ongoing political imprisonment of dissident Alexei Navalny, which activists consider one of Russia\u2019s most pressing ongoing human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden also reportedly discussed his\u00a0overture<\/a>\u00a0to Putin in agreeing to extend the New START nuclear weapons agreement by five years; Moscow had unsuccessfully urged the Trump administration to extend it by just one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he White House said \u201cPresident Biden emphasized the United States\u2019 unwavering commitment to Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d during the call and that he \u201cvoiced our concerns over the sudden Russian military build-up in occupied Crimea and on Ukraine\u2019s borders, and called on Russia to de-escalate tensions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kremlin announced Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not move forward on an offer from U.S. President Joe Biden to meet in person, at least for the time being, Russian state media outlet RT reported. Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov cited logistical issues as the main reason for rejecting the White House\u2019s offer to meet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":30817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bp.png?fit=700%2C447&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30818,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30816\/revisions\/30818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}