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Watch Live: Biden Holds Press Conference After Meeting With Putin

WUNC | By NPR News

Published June 16, 2021 at 10:31 AM EDT

President Biden will hold a summit with Putin this week in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the two leaders that comes amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia. — In this March 10, 2011, file photo, Joe Biden, then vice president, shakes hands with Vladimir Putin, then Russia's prime minister, in Moscow.

President Joe Biden is holding a press conference Wednesday after meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

The meeting comes at the end of Biden's first international trip as president.

Watch the remarks live below, beginning at 12:30 p.m.

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