The first face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place in Switzerland on June 16.

The White House said that the leaders would discuss the full range of issues, including Ukraine and Belarus.

A distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council, a former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, Daniel Fried expects that Biden will put Georgia on the growing list of issues raised with Putin.

As he told the Accent the democratic world “should not accustom itself to Georgia’s division.”

In 2011, when Mr. Joe Biden served as the vice president of the United States, during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin he criticized Russia's occupation of Georgian territory.

“I hope (and expect) that President Biden will indeed put Georgia on the growing list of issues raised with Putin. The U.S. and democratic world generally should not accustom itself to Georgia’s division. Keep the issue alive and address it when we can, and in the meantime support Georgia as it builds a democratic state of law and resists further Kremlin aggression,” he told the Accent.