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Outstanding issues at Medvedev-Obama talks

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Published 07 July, 2009, 07:03

“One, obviously, is missile defense in Eastern Europe. The other is the whole question of NATO expansion,” Lawrence Korb, US assistant Secretary of Defense from 1981-1985, told RT.

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“Obama trips way to make amends for the Bush administration” – US analyst “Obama is trying to patch over poor relations not just with Russia but also with the Islamic world. But most US analysts recognize the limited significance of those meetings,” says Justin Logan of the CATO Institute.

“Extraordinary visit” Vladimir Ryzhkov from the Higher School of Economics voices his amazement at the amount of time President Obama spent not only with top Russian politicians, but also with NGOs, students and opposition members.

NATO expansion still has to be addressed NATO expansion and a proposed missile defense shield still have to be thoroughly addressed by Obama and Medvedev, says the president of Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.

Opposition has its say on Russia-US relations President Barack Obama and Russian opposition leaders met on Tuesday to discuss bilateral relations, a proposed missile defense shield, human rights and the fate of jailed Yukos executives.

“Americans learned more about Medvedev” Most Americans knew little about Dmitry Medvedev before the Moscow summit; Vladimir Putin is far more known in the US. The meeting showed what kind of leader Medvedev is, says Tony Halpin of The Times.

Breakfast at Putin’s Oh, to have been a fly on the wall (but certainly not on Obama) during US President Barack Obama's tense breakfast at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s residence!

Moscow summit just the beginning The Moscow summit was just the first step on the way to something greater, says Mikhail Troitskiy, a political expert from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

“The tide is turning” Horton Beebe-Center, president of the Eurasia Foundation, talked to RT about President Obama’s speech to civic and NGO representatives and the prospect of Russian-US cooperation on a non-political level.

“Obama heard Russia’s concerns” Obama showed concern for Russia’s interests, something that the Bush administration was lousy at doing, says Fred Weir of the Christian Science Monitor.

“A working relationship is developed” Andrew Hardisty, head of Democrats Abroad in Moscow, says that the agreement between Russia and the US to reduce nuclear stockpiles sets a precedent for discussing more difficult issues in the future.

American AMD plans still undecided What happens to the US plans to deploy an anti-ballistic missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic after the Medvedev–Obama meeting is still a big question, says political analyst Henrik Sukhar.

“Change in tone is already an improvement” Establishing a dialogue between the US and Russia is already an accomplishment, believes documentary film maker Kevin McNeer.

“You can’t export democracy with force” Jan Tamash of the Czech “No to base” movement talks about the Obama administration’s new approach to the AMD shields in Eastern Europe and its military foreign policy.

The politics of perfect speech Viktor Sukhodrev, who was the personal interpreter for Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, discusses how good language skills are of great importance when big political issues are on the table.

“New nuclear treaty – quite predictable” Kirill Koktysh from the Moscow Institute of International Relations discusses whether the newly-ratified nuclear treaty is simply a gesture by Russia and the US, or an actual step towards disarmament.

“Obama–Medvedev agreements a breakthrough” The Obama–Medvedev “nuclear” agreements are a breakthrough, because the two countries have shown commitment to stop wasting money on arms, says Fabrice Node-Langloi, the Moscow correspondent of French daily Le Figaro.

“Obama has chosen the easiest part to restart” “Apart from the question of nuclear arms reduction there was hardly any other single crucial issue discussed between the two presidents,” complains international relations analyst Ekaterina Kuznetsova.

“Ukraine and Georgia are off the NATO agenda” “Literally every politician in the West says the NATO membership for these countries is no more considered a real option for the nearest future, but they come closer to the West,” says political analyst Sergey Utkin.

“You can do whatever you want with this world” Choosing an audience of graduates of the Russian New Economic School for his Moscow speech, Barack Obama talked to the future of Russia, assures Sergey Guriyev, the Director of the school.

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“There are no obvious truths apart from human values” The crisis shows that many theories prove to be, if not useless, then very ambiguous and controversial, says Russian Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich, while speaking to graduates of the New Economic School.

“Obama’s visit is a high in Russian-American relations” The meeting of Obama and Medvedev is very timely and will prove to be effective in reducing the world’s nuclear arsenal as it is a huge economic burden to keep, says political analyst Viktor Linnik.

“Obama and Medvedev are psychologically prepared to cooperate” Both sides have demonstrated their desire to work together, and it is in both personal and global interests for them to cooperate, says political analyst Viktor Kremenyuk.

A good START for Medvedev and Obama Monday was a massive day for modern relations between Russia and America, as the Russian and American presidents held several hours of talks and signed a number of important documents.

“We still do not trust each other 100%” Both Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev are young and not associated with the Cold War era, but they grew up during that time, says the director of international services at RIA-Novosti Russian news agency Samir Shakhbaz.

“It’s a good day, but there’s still a long way to go” "It took eight years for President George W. Bush to mess up US-Russia relations, and it’s going to take more than eight months to get the two talking and working together more closely,” says US analyst John Isaacs.

“Real substance came out of today” – US analyst on Medvedev-Obama meeting “Joint statement agreeing to follow on to the START treaty, which expires at the end of the year, is huge for both countries,” Spencer Boyer from the Center for American Progress told RT.

Solutions are possible – US expert on AMD “Putting ballistic missile interceptors on sea-based destroyers or moving the ground-based interceptors to more southern locations would not bother Russia too much,” said Daryl Kimball from the Arms Control Association.

“New rules for a nuclear world” The issue of the new START treaty is the establishment of a framework for nuclear weapons which has been ignored during the last eight years, says Ivan Safranchuk from the Moscow Institute of International Relations.

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