Biden Pushes Putin For Stable "Great Powers" Relationship At First Summit

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that "a lot of issues" need addressing "at the highest level" and that he hoped the meeting would be "productive".

President Joe Biden pressed Vladimir Putin at their summit Wednesday to replace the combustible US-Russian stand-off with a more "predictable" relationship between "two great powers" capable of agreeing to disagree. The two leaders wrapped up their first summit shortly after 5 pm (1500 GMT), after around three-and-a-half hours of meetings at an elegant villa in Geneva. They were set to hold separate news conferences shortly after the meeting ended. At the start early Wednesday afternoon, they shook hands, striking cautiously positive notes.