Dmitry Medvedev said he will meet Barack Obama on April 1 in London at the G20 summit and discuss key bilateral issues from nuclear nonproliferation to fighting the global crisis and terrorism.
Dmitry Medvedev named the date of the meeting and the topic of the upcoming talks with Barack Obama. According to the Russian leader, he will discuss with the White House chief all the main issues on the bilateral agenda, including nuclear nonproliferation, the fight against the global crisis, and international terrorism.The long-awaited meeting of the two leaders will take place on April 1 in London on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
Medvedev hopes that relations between Russia and the United States, which have recently deteriorated, will improve under the new American administration. "Over the past years, our relations have deteriorated quite significantly, and this saddens us. There are every opportunity to open a new page in relations between Russia and the United States," said D. Medvedev. "The signals from the United States that I receive from President Barack Obama seem quite positive."
Thus, the president once again confirmed his desire to develop Russian-American relations from a clean slate after Barack Obama came to power.
Last week, the fact of correspondence between the two leaders became public knowledge. However, speculation that Obama had proposed to Medvedev, so to speak, to exchange missile defense in Eastern Europe for Iran was not confirmed. But both presidents personally acknowledged the fact of the correspondence.
In turn, Barack Obama said that he had "had a good exchange of views with the Russian side." "I spoke about the need to 'reset' our relations," the American president explained the story of the letter to Medvedev.