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U.S. President Joe Biden said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to explore working together on areas of mutual concern during their first summit in Geneva.
But he said that Washington would respond to any actions that put American interests at risk.
Biden said the talks took place in an atmosphere that was different from that of recent years.
[Clip: Biden]
"The tone of the entire meetings, I guess it was total four hours, was good, positive. There wasn't any strident action taken. Where we disagreed, I disagreed, stated where it was. Where he disagreed, he stated. But it was not done in a hyperbolic atmosphere. That is too much of what's been going on."
Putin, meanwhile, denied that Russia had a role in a series of increasingly bold cyberattacks against U.S. institutions.
He told journalists that the U.S. was to blame for most attacks.
[Clip: Putin]
"The U.S. sources claim that the majority of cyberattacks are made from the U.S. territory and then the second one is Canada, then to Latin American states and then the UK. As for Russia, it is not listed in this ranking of countries that see the most significant number of cyberattacks."
Although the two leaders emerged from their highly-anticipated summit largely where they started, with differences on human rights, cyberattacks, election meddling and more, they agreed to return their chief diplomats to Moscow and Washington and start working on a plan to solidify their last remaining treaty limiting nuclear weapons.
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