President Joe Biden will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whereas on his journey to Europe later this month, the White House introduced Thursday.
The assembly, which is able to happen June 14 on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels, comes in opposition to the backdrop of some stress between the 2 leaders.
Erdogan had pushed for an earlier name with Biden after the US president took workplace. And he was later annoyed when Biden declared the mass killings of Armenians by the hands of the Turks in 1915 as a genocide, a decree Ankara lengthy opposed.
The White House additionally revealed different particulars of Biden’s first abroad journey as president, which begins subsequent week.
The president will first meet with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on June 10 forward of attending the G-7 summit in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Biden and first woman Jill Biden will then have an viewers with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle earlier than heading to Belgium for the NATO and European summits. While there, he’ll meet with host leaders King Philippe and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
The journey will conclude in Geneva, the place Biden on June 16 will meet with Swiss President Guy Parmelin and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis forward of his extremely anticipated summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.