Upcoming Obama-Medvedev phone call likely to complete START deal.

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Itar-Tass) -- The United States hopes the new
strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia will be wrapped up during an
upcoming telephone conversation between Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry
Medvedev.
"We're hopeful to have a call with President Medvedev in the next few
days and hope that we can wrap up a new treaty on the next call," White
House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Thursday.
He stressed Obama "has been enormously involved personally in moving
this process along".
"The two Presidents last spoke on the 13th of March and we think we're
moving toward good progress on something that will be important for the
American people," Gibbs said according to a transcript posted on the White
House website.
Asked whether the call on March 13 was a breakthrough, Gibbs said "it
certainly helped move a number of issues along."
"I think if we get a START deal done, it will demonstrate a strong
partnership between the United States and Russia being able to address not
just the problems of nuclear security in their two countries, but the
deadly spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world," Gibbs said
referring to international efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem.