Before his meeting with Putin, Biden warned: “I am not looking for a conflict, but we will respond if Russia continues its nefarious activities.”

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, brought forward this Monday in Brussels that when he meets his Russian counterpart on Wednesday, Vladimir Poutine, in Switzerland, it will tell you what the “red lines“It shouldn’t cross.

“It is our common interest and the interest of the world that we cooperate. And we’ll see if we can do it. And in areas where we don’t agree, make it clear what the red lines are“said the US president at a press conference.

After attending a NATO summit on Monday, Biden will attend a meeting with the top leaders of the European institutions on Tuesday, and at the end of the day he will travel to Geneva, Switzerland, where the meeting with Putin will take place.

At a press conference at NATO Headquarters, Biden said the Russian leader is a man “clever“O”Lasted“, But he stressed that he should understand that if the opponent Alexei Navalny to die in prison, that would be “a tragedy”.

In his remarks, Biden also pledged the country’s support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and condemned the “Aggressive actions” by Russia, which annexed the Crimean peninsula to its territory in 2014.

“I’m not looking for a conflict with Russia, but we will respond if Russia continues its nefarious activities“said the US president, who also reaffirmed his” continued support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine “.

Biden also said that “we will do everything possible so that Ukraine can resist the aggression.” However, the US president threw ice cold water on Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski’s claims to get Biden’s support for Ukraine’s early integration into NATO.

This step, Biden said, does not depend on the United States, but on the 30 members of NATO.

Likewise, the American president assured him that he was sincere when he called Putin “assassin“In the past, add that anyway”he thinks it doesn’t matter so much», Upstream of the summit between the two in Switzerland.

When asked if he still thinks the Russian is a murderer, Biden laughed into the microphone and replied: “i laugh tooReferring to Putin’s reaction in an interview to the American’s statements when he called him that.

In response to another question of whether he will be able to trust the Russian president when he meets him, Biden said that check first, then trust.

On the other hand, Biden met on Monday on the sidelines of the summit of the alliance with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at a meeting which considered “positive“O”productive”.

The Turkish president offered more details at the end of the interview and stressed that they had tried “constructively all questions “, both those in which they agree and in which there are differences.

Despite this, he admitted that they had failed to address one of the most controversial issues: Turkey’s use of the Russian S-400 anti-missile system. which led to Ankara’s suspension of the US F-35 combat program.

However, Erdogan said he expressed to Biden the well-known Turkish position that he is free to use his own means of defense.

With information from AFP and EFE

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