Biden also intended to support Ukrainian sovereignty and his goal to extend a nuclear weapons treaty with Russia for five years, said Psaki.
The two leaders agreed to “work urgently” to extend the nuclear treaty until February 5, when the deal is about to expire, according to the Biden government’s reading on the summons. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty limits the deployed nuclear weapons of the two countries to 1,550 each.
“They also agreed to explore strategic stability discussions on a range of arms control and emerging security issues,” said the reading.
Biden and Putin agreed to be transparent and communicate consistently, according to the reading.
“His intention was also to make it clear that the United States will act strongly in the defense of our national interests in response to Russia’s evil actions,” Psaki told reporters.
Biden’s agenda for his connection with Putin has taken a decidedly different tone from former President Donald Trump, who has been the subject of significant criticism for his relatively bland rhetoric towards Russia, especially in relation to his broader approach to US foreign policy. American. Trump routinely tried to undermine widely accepted evidence about the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 elections, at one point telling reporters that he would accept the Russian president’s word about that of the U.S. intelligence community on the matter.
Biden promised to turn the Trump administration’s page on US-Russia relations and take a stronger stand against the Kremlin.
In April 2018, Trump blamed poor relations between the U.S. and Russia in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the potential collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. The investigation found no Trump-Russia conspiracy, but established that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections in a “comprehensive and systematic manner”. Mueller’s report also found repeated communications between Trump associates and people who indicated they had potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
About the large-scale federal agency hack discovered in December – which intelligence agencies said was probably the work of Russia – Trump hinted at no basis that it may have been China. Biden promised an energetic response to the campaign.
“My administration will make cybersecurity a top priority at all levels of government,” said Biden in a statement, “and we will make dealing with this breach a top priority from the moment we take office.”
After less than a week in office, Biden is now in liaison with several prominent foreign leaders, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron and President Andrés Manuel López Mexico worker.
Biden promised “to restore dignified leadership at home and respected leadership on the world stage” in the wake of Trump’s foreign policy.