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Article: Why Obama-Medvedev summit is crucial.
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- Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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Byline: Jonathan Power
The first summit between US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev is only days away and so far there has only been perfunctory mention of this in the media. Odd, not to say irresponsible. If played right, this could be the most important summit since presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush, having torn down the Iron Curtain, decided that they had enough confidence in the other side to introduce unilateral nuclear arms cuts, a valuable ancillary to what they formally agreed.
In the opinion of Georgi Arbatov, Gorbachev's (and before that Brezhnev's) foreign affairs adviser, the time is overdue ...