The most important thing for you this Thursday:

Tatjana Heid

Editor on duty at FAZ.NET.

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    1. Hope for a better relationship between the USA and Russia


    2. Federal President Steinmeier visits Poland


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    1. Hope for a better relationship between the USA and Russia

    The meeting between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva is sending out cautious signs of relaxation.

    The United Nations now hope to ease international tensions.

    1:25 p.m.:

    Given the low point at which US-Russian relations are, expectations for the meeting on Wednesday were not high.

    The very fact that Putin did not let Biden wait - unlike the Pope or the Queen of England, for example - was noted positively.

    The meeting between the American and Russian presidents began with a handshake shortly before half past one and lasted a good four hours.

    Results:

    Russia and the USA have agreed on the return of their ambassadors to Moscow and Washington, and both countries want to start consultations on cybersecurity and strategic talks on arms control. The talks on strategic stability are seen as an important signal for global security. The United Nations now hope to ease international tensions.

    Conflicts:

    Putin confirmed that Biden had addressed the human rights situation in Russia.

    However, he railed that the US had enough problems of its own in this regard.

    Putin defended the imprisonment of the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalnyj.

    For his part, Biden stressed that he would continue to denounce human rights violations in Russia.

    "There were no threats," Biden said of the meeting.

    But it's not about trust either.

    “This is about self-interest.” And it is in nobody's interest if both countries are in “a new Cold War”.

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    2. Federal President Steinmeier visits Poland

    Frank-Walter Steinmeier would like to show the solidarity - also and especially in view of the difficulties in the German-Polish relationship.

    Visit:

    Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda this Thursday in Warsaw. The occasion is the 30th anniversary of the German-Polish neighborhood treaty. With the treaty, both countries agreed on closer cooperation at government level and German support for Poland's rapprochement with the EU. Steinmeier and Duda will take part in a discussion on neighborly relations with adolescents and young adults.

    History:

    The German-Polish neighborhood agreement was signed on June 17, 1991 by the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the Polish Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki as well as the German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and his Polish counterpart Krzysztof Skubiszewski. It supplemented the German-Polish border treaty negotiated in 1990.