Russian, US Presidents believe cooperation organic element of

WASHIGNTON, April 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian-U.S. treaty on strategic
offensive armaments reduction, which the two countries signed last week is
a "fair instance of fruitful work and logic based on the account of mutual
interests," Russia President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.
"In this situation, the entire world community and not only Russia and
the U.S. received benefits," he said in a speech at the Brookings
Intitute's center for political studies after the end of the world nuclear
summit.
"Now it's important to ratify the treaty and to enact it and I'd like
to stress our openness for further discussions of the problems of
disarmament, including in the context of peaceful utilization of the
atomic energy," Medvedev said.
He expressed the conviction that the result reached by Moscow and
Washington "became possible, among other things, owing to big encouraging
shifts in the Russian-U.S. relations as a whole.
"U.S. President and I myself have frank communications and are trying
to ward off the confrontational symbols of the past," Medvedev said.
"We've arrived at a mutual understanding that partnership if an organic
part of our national interests."
Russia and the U.S. are working together on all the crucial global
problems of our times, including security and the ways of overcoming the
financial and economic crisis, he said.
"The issues we're working together on include counteraction to
terrorism, drugs trafficking,cross border crime, and piracy,. the
settlement of regional conflicts, and counteraction to dangerous climate
changes," Medvedev said.
"Special attention will be paid to improving the mechanisms of
multilateral regulation of international relations, and the UN in the
first place," he said. "The UN has the character of a universal floor,
although we don't forget about the G8 and the G20 either."
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