Monday, March 23, 2009

Obama met Gorbachev last week

I wonder what they are planning? Hhmm!

The White House disclosed Monday that President Barack Obama met former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week, as the United States and Russia intensify efforts to "reset" strained relations.
Gorbachev was at a White House meeting with Vice President Joe Biden on Friday when Obama informally dropped by, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
The announcement comes just over a week before the US president meets Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in London.
"The president tends to roam around the larger house and sometimes walks into meetings that weren't previously on his schedule," Gibbs said, when asked why the meeting had not been made public before.
US presidents often stage informal "drop by" meetings with senior officials or informal representatives of foreign nations, who do not by protocol qualify for an official Oval Office welcome.
The Biden-Gorbachev meeting was the latest in a series of encounters between the two sides ahead of Obama's meeting with Medvedev in London on the fringes of a G20 economic summit.
Medvedev said while meeting former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger in Moscow last week that he had high hopes for his meeting with Obama, and hoped the two sides would make good on a US vow to improve relations.
Gibbs said that Biden and Gorbachev talked about how the United States could work to reduce their nuclear arsenals, combat nuclear proliferation and cooperate on energy issues.
In February, Biden made the first major move in US-Russia relations of the Obama presidency, saying at a security conference in Munich that it was time to push the "reset button" after the tense exchanges of the previous Bush administration.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5beb7fa32a18b4053f085717a48d3efb.3b1&show_article=1&catnum=3

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