Obama, Medvedev vow to broaden bilateral cooperation

To reset and broaden the U.S.-Russia relationship is "the real focus of our work today and of President Medvedev's visit, because 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relationship has to be about more than just security and arms control," Obama told a joint press conference with Medvedev after their meeting in the White House.

"It has to be about our shared prosperity and what we can build together," said the president.

During the meeting, the two leaders, just as they did in the past meetings, discussed their common concerns over security, including nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, Russia's relations with its European neighbors, U.S. missile defense plan in Europe, situation in Kyrgyzstan, the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula.

But the top priority for the summit was economy. As the Kremlin expected, the U.S. president after the summit reaffirmed "strong commitment to Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization ( WTO) and vowed to speed up his administration's efforts to complete relative process as soon as possible; Kazinform cites Xinhua.

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