US, Russia to reduce nuke warheads
The United States and Russia, striving to ease strained relations, announced jointly yesterday that they'll try to put a new nuclear arms reduction deal in place before the existing treaty expires in December.
In advance of their first sitdown, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a joint statement saying the "era when our countries viewed each other as enemies is long over." They pledged to work together to limit the world's two largest nuclear arsenals, and the White House also announced that Obama was accepting Medvedev's invitation to visit Moscow this summer.
"Over the last several years, the relationship between our two countries has been allowed to drift," Obama told reporters after his meeting with Medvedev. "What I believe we've begun today is a very constructive dialogue that will allow us to work on issues of mutual interest."
