The meeting was short on concrete outcomes, but one area where there seemed to be some progress was arms control.
In a joint statement after the summit, Biden and Putin said they agreed to resume a dialogue on strategic stability on nuclear arms control.
“Today, we reaffirm the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” the statement said, a line that pleased arms control advocates and echoes the principle put forward by former President Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Biden administration and Russia reached an agreement in February to extend New START, that last remaining nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow. The new dialogue will lay the groundwork for future arms control and risk reduction measures, the statement said.
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