Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemoeller told TASS it was a good sign that the Presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, will keep the bilateral communication channel open. “I don’t have any insider information about where the White House would propose to hold the summit,” the U.S. diplomat said. “But I think it’s an excellent sign that the communication link between President Biden and President Putin is open and that they are placing a high priority on discussing strategic stability and arms control, Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine and climate change.”
“I hope that President Putin will agree to join the multilateral climate summit in addition to a bilateral summit with President Biden. Both will be an opportunity to cement this important communication link,” Gottemoeller said.
Gottemoeller served as deputy secretary general of NATO between October 2016 and October 2019 and prior to that, was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. As Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance in 2009 and 2010, she was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation..
