The first part of the negotiations of the Presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States Vladimir Putin and Joe Bayden began in an extended format at the Geneva Villa La Grunge, RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier in the Kremlin noted that negotiations would consist of three parts: narrow and two extended with a break on tea-coffee. On the eve of a familiar meeting of the meeting, the source reported RIA Novosti that they were calculated for 4 hours 45 minutes.
Putin’s negotiations and Bayden in narrow composition launched almost 2 hours.
The Russian delegation included a assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakov, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, Arch Republic of Anatoly Antonov, Head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov and Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov. The deputy head of the Presidential Administration Dmitry Kozak and the Syrian Special Representative for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev were also invited.