A joint political statement is not like an email or a newspaper column. Each word is negotiated. That is why the April 1 statement from Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev is so remarkable. The two leaders spoke with unusual clarity, defining intentions and joint projects.
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/632
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/news-analysis/blog/words-matter-vocabulary-obama-and-medvedev
