Geneva, Switzerland and Washington, DC (GenevaLunch) – Talks Friday between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could be a follow-up to what the New York Times calls a “secret letter” from US President Barack Obama to Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, hand-delivered in mid-February. The newspaper’s Tuesday 3 March edition says that the letter suggested the US would not need to continue building a defense shield in eastern Europe if Iran could be persuaded not to continue building nuclear warheads and missiles.
The front-page story notes that “The officials who described the contents of the message requested anonymity because it has not been made public. While they said it did not offer a direct quid pro quo, the letter was intended to give Moscow an incentive to join the United States in a common front against Iran.”
Missile defense is on the agenda for the Friday talks in Geneva.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 3 March 2009.
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