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Russian and US Presidents Conclude Productive Meeting in Washington DC

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Russian and US Presidents Conclude Productive Meeting in Washington DC


25.06.2010

Dmitry Medvedev and President of the United States Barack Obama discussed bilateral economic cooperation and Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization.

Besides, the two presidents discussed Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Silicon Valley and reviewed various issues on the international agenda specifically addressing Iran’s nuclear program, North Korea related matters, the Middle East peace process, and the situation in Kyrgyzstan.

Following the talks, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama issued a joint statement noting that Russia and the United States are committed to further promote their new strategic relations based on mutual trust, openness, predictability and cooperation.

The Presidents agreed to continue cooperating in strategic offensive arms cuts, encouraging energy efficiency, developing environmentally clean energy, and fighting terrorism.

Following the talks Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama held a joint news conference. President Medvedev said: “The President and I spoke today, as well as at our previous meetings, about valuable steps we have made toward strengthening trust between our nations. We have made steps aimed at establishing a more reliable structure of our relations, and to a certain extent, we made our world safer.”

President Obama noted: “We recently marked the 65th anniversary of our shared victory in that war, including that historic moment when American and Soviet troops came together in friendship at the Elbe River in Germany. A reporter who was there at that time, all those years ago, said: ‘If there is a fine, splendid world in the future, it will largely be because the United States and Russia get on well together.  If it is in trouble, it will be because they don’t get on well.  It’s as simple as that.’ The decades that followed saw many troubles – too many troubles.  But 65 years later, it’s still as simple as that.  Our countries are more secure and the world is safer when the United States and Russia get on well together.”

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