Biden says tone of Putin talks was ‘good, positive’

GENEVA: US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that discussions during his first summit with Vladimir Putin were “positive”, but he warned his Russian counterpart that Washington would not tolerate interference in US democracy.

“The tone of the entire meeting... was good, positive,” Biden told reporters after the summit in Geneva, stressing though that he “made it clear that we will not tolerate attempts to violate our democratic sovereignty or destabilise our democratic elections and we would respond.”