Russia`s Medvedev calls world nuclear summit very successful.

WASHINGTON, April 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Initiative to hold a global
nuclear security summit in Washington "was absolutely timely" and the
summit itself was "crowned with a complete success," Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institute on the
results of the summit that had brought together the leaders of 47
countries, the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the
European Union.
"The issues of disarmament and nonproliferation concern a big number
of countries and today's discussion confirmed it," Medvedev said.
"The world is going through a period of profound transformation these
days, running into challenges and seeking new models for development," he
said. "Lying at the their root is the mutual interrelation of interests."
"The world will be harmonized if its constituent elements come to
mutually complementing one another instead of clashing with each other,"
Medvedev said. "Democracy, human rights and market economy make up the
backbone of national development and, on top of that, international
values."
He indicated that the dialogue between Russia and the U.S. is an
important part of these values.
"I'm very glad our cooperation is getting stronger and starts bringing
tangible results and I'm also satisfied with the fact that changes have
occurred in the atmosphere of Russian-U.S. relations within a period of
slightly more than a year," Medvedev said.
He also said that Moscow and Washington should refrain from the
attempts to teach each other how they should live. Instead of this, it
would be worththile building long-term pragmatic relations.
"The history of our bilateral relations is far from simple," Medvedev
went on saying. "At times, we begin to cleave to each other in a
strangling manner and then an abyss opens up between us."
"We try to find differences between us while in reality we should
build long-term pragmatic relations based on the common values of
democracy and economic freedom and the common goals of fighting with
global challenges," he said.
"Our national histories differ and our people very often perceive
current developments in a different manner," Medvedev said. "The U.S.
started building a market economy two centuries ago, and we lived through
a chain of upheavals and experiments at the same time."
"Russia needs several decades of steady and undisturbed work to build
an efficiently working political and economic system, and this is the only
prerequisite for making contradictions a thing of the past," he said.
"To make this possible, we should stay away from teaching each other
how to live," Medvedev said.