Seeking to reverse the Bush-era deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations, President Obama will meet with Russian President Medvedev next week with arms control at the top of their agenda. Daryl Kimball [2], executive director of the Arms Contol Association [3], said that "the Obama administration has chosen to focus on the areas where the United States and Russia wish to cooperate, and to de-emphasize some of the areas where we have disagreed. One of the most important ways in which they have done this is to focus on the job of negotiating a replacement treaty for the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty [4] which expires at the end of this year."
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/898
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/37
[3] http://www.armscontrol.org
[4] http://www.armscontrol.org/subject/61/date
[5] http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-24-voa48.cfm