There's Only A Coffee Break, Here Are The Details Of The Joe Biden - Vladimir Putin Meeting Schedule

Joe Biden (Wikimedia Commons/Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), Vladimir Putin (Wikimedia Commons/The Presidential Press and Information Office/www.kremlin.ru)

JAKARTA - The President of the United States (US) Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland local time today. This will be the first high-level meeting between the US and Russia, following President Putin's meeting with Donald Trump in Finland last July 2018.

Cited from TASS on Wednesday, June 16, this meeting is expected to last about four to five hours, but it depends on the two leaders.

"The Russia-US summit in Geneva is planned to last about 4-5 hours including breaks", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.

President Putin's plane is expected to land in Geneva afternoon and head straight for the summit venue. Meanwhile, President Biden has arrived since yesterday and spent the night at the five-star InterContinental hotel.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said President Vladimir Putin was expected to arrive at the Villa La Grange meeting location around 13:00 p.m. local time and would be greeted by Swiss President Guy Parmelin. President Biden will arrive shortly.

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. (Wikimedia Commons/Official White House/David Lienemann)

After having an official photo session, President Parmelin will officially welcome the summit participants, followed by the two leaders going to the villa library for talks.

The first talks will be held in a limited format, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in attendance.

A delegation source told TASS, according to a special schedule of talks to start at 3.30 p.m., a coffee break is scheduled at around 17.00 p.m. local time and then talks will resume. A US Government source confirmed that no joint work lunch was planned.

Although it was not scheduled, a one-on-one meeting between President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin is possible.

"I don't know what the president will decide, it's up to them" He pointed out that one-on-one conversations had taken place at previous Russia-US summits, as well as at past meetings between leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States.

After the meeting is over, the two leaders will speak to the press separately at an undetermined time interval.