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Arms Meeting Medvedev Obama Politics

US to “review the whole question of missile defense”

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Published 29 June, 2009, 14:03

The Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs at the US House of Representatives Howard Berman is in Moscow to lay the groundwork for Barack Obama’s upcoming trip. He gave an insider’s view on the talks.

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