" MOSCOW (Sputnik) - In a follow-up to last month's landmark meeting between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden in Geneva, the top diplomats of the world's two largest nuclear-weapon powers held a closed-door meeting in the same Swiss city to discuss strategic stability and address normalizing their fraught bilateral relations."

" The delegations were headed by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov
and US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman."

" The Geneva consultations were "professional and substantive," the US State Department said in a readout of the talks. Ryabkov echoed the sentiment, saying he was satisfied with the meeting and noting that the United States had demonstrated its readiness for constructive dialogue."

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The second factor voiced by the Russian diplomat was that the parties were able to discuss "not only the substantive part of the upcoming strategic dialogue but also outline a certain perspective," Ryabkov said
The two sides agreed to meet again in a plenary session at the end of September and to hold informal consultations in the meantime. The delegations also discussed the creation of strategic stability working groups."

" The first US-Russia Summit between Putin and Biden took place in Geneva on June 16. The leaders issued a joint statement emphasizing that the two sides intended to launch a comprehensive bilateral dialogue on strategic stability that would be substantive and energetic. In addition, both Russia and the United States stated that they intended to begin consultations on cybersecurity, prisoner swaps and arms control."

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