Geneva, June 16 -- : US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday smiled and greeting each other awkwardly with a handshake outside a villa in Geneva, before heading in for a highly-anticipated summit.
This is the first meeting of Biden in a decade with the Russian president, whom he last met when Putin was prime minister and he was serving as vice president, in March of 2011. The summit is also the first meeting between US and Russian leaders since Putin met Donald Trump in Helsinki in 2018.
Swiss President Guy Parmelin welcomed both the leaders to Switzerland and they were photographed standing on either side of the Swiss President before the leaders of the US and Russia headed inside. Parmelin wished t...