NATO head, Biden mull relations with Russia

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and US President Joe Biden discussed relations with Russia at a meeting in Washington, Report informs referring to TASS.

“Then I welcome that Biden, after his meeting with the NATO leaders, will travel on, and meet with the President Putin. And the meeting between President Biden and President Putin, that is in line with NATO’s dual-track approach to Russia. We need deterrence and defense, but also dialogue when it comes to Russia,” Stoltenberg said.

He avoided a direct answer to a request to clarify whether a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council will occur in anticipation of the upcoming summit of the alliance in Brussels.

Stoltenberg noted that he discussed with Biden the problems of arms control and also welcomed the five-year extension of the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, also known as the New START Treaty.