Obama & Medvedev. Moscow Press Conference. July 6, 2009. Part 3 Russia and the US have agreed on strategic arms reduction and on the signing of a new treaty to replace the current one, known as START. The two states are going to reduce the number of nuclear warheads to between 1500 and 1675, and nuclear missiles to between 500 and 1100. The main points to be included in the new START treaty are listed in a document named “Joint Understanding on Further Strategic Offensive Arms Cuts and Reductions” which was signed today by the leaders in the Kremlin. Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, on his first visit to Moscow, have also signed a number of bilateral agreements on anti-missile defense and Afghanistan. An agreement over the transit of US weapons, military hardware and personnel through Russian territory in connection with USs efforts aimed at providing security and stabilization of situation in Afghanistan was one of the deals signed. Also, a joint presidential commission co-chaired by the US and Russian heads of state has been set up. It will consist of 13 working groups covering different fields of cooperation, such as nuclear energy and nuclear security, arms control, foreign policy and counter-terrorism, the fight against drug trafficking and others. The protocol meeting between President Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama started in a narrow format with only foreign policy aides and foreign ministers participating. It was planned that this meeting would last …
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iloveyourstory on June 13th, 2010 1:53 pm
Is that an automatic translator or is someone doing it for him?
MonsterIsrael on June 13th, 2010 2:43 pm
Bush shows lots of evidence before invade Iraq. All the World knows now this is the biggest lie done by Bush and international community need to bear it rest of their life.
Iran invade is vital for USA’s multi-billion dollar weapon business and Oil trade by US Dollar by force. China will loss economy in long run because USA will not give China a drop of Iranian Oil after invading Iran. Its all about Business of trillion Dollar and gear up US economy by doing another war
rbynum09 on June 13th, 2010 3:33 pm
It’s not the best English, but I can understand everything he is saying.
holiday920 on June 13th, 2010 4:16 pm
He deffinately doesn’t speak the best english in the world but not bad.
Unona777 on June 13th, 2010 4:58 pm
native English speakers, I am interested in your opinion please: what do you think about the interpreters who translated to Obama, whose voices we can hear? I am attending Translating/Conference Interpreting Course and would greatly appreciate your comments, just to know that I could use these postings in my studies, thx a lot!