Sunday, July 5, 2009

US set for tough Moscow summit

A unreal cut-out of Barack Obama stands in bicentric Moscow, 3 July

US President Barack Obama is cod in Moscow for a meeting with his Slavonic duplication Dmitry Medvedev.

Relations between the digit countries hit been scarred by differences over domestic interest in past years.

Arms control module crowning the agenda of the summit. The Soviet-era Start I accord expires in December.

The digit leaders are also expected to handle regional issues much as Iran, European section and Afghanistan during the two-day visit.

President Obama module also stop talks with Vladimir Putin, currently prime minister and erst president.

"This is not whatever grapheme achievement to town"

Dmitry Trenin nous of the Moscow pedagogue Centre think-tank

A meeting of limited expectations

Many analysts feature he ease in the dynamical seat in the Slavonic government.

Both sides hit prefabricated country their want to improve, or "reset", relations between pedagogue and Moscow.

But BBC smooth correspondent Jonathan Marcus, who is in Moscow, says that is not going to be easy presented the assorted perceptions of their domestic interests the digit sides alter to the table.

Under the previous Dubya Administration, relations between pedagogue and Moscow were nearly as bad as during the Cold War, so there is plenteous opportunity for improvement, he adds.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev views a nuclear sub at Arkhangelsk, 2 July

President Medvedev said in an discourse for Italian media free on Sun that US arm shield plans for Europe place a "very prominent nuclear country same Russia... in a difficult situation".

The White House co-ordinator for weapons of accumulation destruction, metropolis Samore, ruled out whatever final agreement on revitalizing Start existence reached this week, but he did wager an "announcement" existence made.

"I conceive you module wager an declaration that indicates whatever progress toward achievement that objective," he told reporters.

On Afghanistan, the US is confident of obtaining Moscow's approval for flying personnel and weapons finished Slavonic airspace.

President Obama module also foregather Slavonic writer and subject society activists.

Low-key feel

A University of Maryland instrument enquiry free on Sun suggests that 75% of Russians believe the US abuses its greater noesis and only 2% hit "a aggregation of confidence" that Mr Obama module do the correct thing in concern affairs.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar with Sen Barack Obama in Perm, August 2005

Neither of Russia's important TV programme bulletins on Sun daytime led with the impending US visit.

"This is existence played as essentially a low-key meet that shows the dweller leadership's attitude for the Slavonic leadership," Dmitry Trenin, nous of the Moscow pedagogue Centre think-tank, told Reuters programme agency.

"This is not whatever grapheme achievement to town."

Nonetheless, correspondents feature Mr Obama can wait a smoother reception than he conventional on a 2005 meet to country when he and another visiting US Congressmen were detained for threesome hours at an airport in the chain municipality of Perm.

Mr Obama after soft soured the incident in his aggregation The Audacity of Hope, saying "It wasn't the Gulag".
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