Washington, June 25: US President Barack Obama has said that he has “reset” the button of relationship with its Cold War adversary Russia, ties with which had dipped a new low during the previous Bush Administration.
“I firmly believe that America’s most significant national security interests and priorities could be advanced most effectively through cooperation, not an adversarial relationship with Russia,” Obama said at a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.
“That’s why I committed to resetting the relationship between our two nations. And in President Medvedev, I’ve found a solid and reliable partner. We listen to one another, and we speak candidly,” he said.
“By any measure, we have made significant progress and achieved concrete results. Together, we negotiated and signed the historic New START Treaty, committing our nations to significant reductions in deployed nuclear weapons.
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