Medvedev and Obama will discuss bilateral, global issues
Baku, November 8 (AZERTAC). Presidents of Russia and the United States, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, will have a bilateral meeting within the APEC summit in Japan, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said on Monday.
“We are working on organising a meeting with Obama,” Prikhodko said.
“The parties are expected to discuss further strengthening and intensification of Russian-American interaction at a bilateral level and on the international arena, the creation of additional stimulus and proper conditions, Russia`s and the U.S.` responsibility for maintaining global strategic stability, the ratification of the START Treaty and the following steps,” the presidential aide said.
Prikhodko did not rule out that the leaders of the two countries would exchange views on the upcoming NATO summit in Lisbon.
Commenting on prospects for the ratification of the START Treaty and Russian-American relations, the presidential aide said: “Our policy towards the United States is based on our own interests and our responsibility without any link to political contacts.”
“We believe that Americans have enough political will and chances to pursue the same policy. We have no doubts over the U.S. responsible approach towards their own obligations,” Prikhodko stressed.
At the bilateral meeting in Yokohama on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum`s summit, the Russian and U.S. presidents will discuss international and regional security, economy and joint business projects.
“The agenda of the meeting between the Russian and U.S. leaders is traditional and includes issues of international security, regional security and economic issues,” presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said.
He said the presidents would touch upon some joint projects by Russian and U.S. businesspersons. “They might be related or not related to Skolkovo,” the presidential aide said, adding that Russia had an optimistic view of the prospects for the meeting.
“I believe the presidents will give an additional impulse to Russian and U.S. business, that there are political set-ups for cooperation and that now the matter depends on concrete projects,” he said.
According to the aide, the U.S. administration plans to consider cancelling the Jackson-Vanik amendment within the next few months.
“As for the Jackson-Vanik amendment, the U.S. administration plans to consider this issue within the next few months,” he said, adding that at present, the ratification of the new agreement on reducing strategic offensive armaments is the priority.
The recent election to the Congress would not stop the “resetting” process in relations with the U.S. “I don`t believe it will affect the `resetting` process. We`ll continue to move onward,” Dvorkovich said.
He said it had been possible to achieve “unprecedented progress in the WTO (issue)”.
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