A total of 27 U.S. organizations criticized U.S. President Joseph Biden’s remarks about his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and urged him to engage in constructive bilateral talks with Moscow, The Hill reported.
"As national organizations that advocate for diplomacy, arms control, disarmament and peace, we are deeply alarmed by the recent negative exchanges between leaders of the two countries with more than 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads in their arsenals," the organizations wrote in a statement obtained by The Hill.
"As Americans, we urge the Biden administration to stop participating in such reckless rhetorical exchanges and to instead vigorously pursue nuclear-arms negotiations with the Russian government," the 27 organizations, including leftist ones, said.
They urged the U.S. president to "make good on his stated commitment" from February that "diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy." They called upon him to engage in "constructive bilateral talks to address the clear and present dangers of the nuclear arms race has never been more apparent."
