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“Obama is the first ‘global’ president”

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Published 06 July, 2009, 15:31

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“In the era of globalization, Obama thinks not only of US, but of the whole world, which he showed in his strategy of global respect and cooperation,” believes David Wolfe, senior partner at Northstar Corporate Finance.

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“Americans learned more about Medvedev” Most Americans knew little about Dmitry Medvedev before the Moscow summit; Vladimir Putin is far more known in the US. The meeting showed what kind of leader Medvedev is, says Tony Halpin of The Times.

Breakfast at Putin’s Oh, to have been a fly on the wall (but certainly not on Obama) during US President Barack Obama's tense breakfast at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s residence!

Moscow summit just the beginning The Moscow summit was just the first step on the way to something greater, says Mikhail Troitskiy, a political expert from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

“The tide is turning” Horton Beebe-Center, president of the Eurasia Foundation, talked to RT about President Obama’s speech to civic and NGO representatives and the prospect of Russian-US cooperation on a non-political level.

“Obama heard Russia’s concerns” Obama showed concern for Russia’s interests, something that the Bush administration was lousy at doing, says Fred Weir of the Christian Science Monitor.

“A working relationship is developed” Andrew Hardisty, head of Democrats Abroad in Moscow, says that the agreement between Russia and the US to reduce nuclear stockpiles sets a precedent for discussing more difficult issues in the future.

American AMD plans still undecided What happens to the US plans to deploy an anti-ballistic missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic after the Medvedev–Obama meeting is still a big question, says political analyst Henrik Sukhar.

“Change in tone is already an improvement” Establishing a dialogue between the US and Russia is already an accomplishment, believes documentary film maker Kevin McNeer.

“You can’t export democracy with force” Jan Tamash of the Czech “No to base” movement talks about the Obama administration’s new approach to the AMD shields in Eastern Europe and its military foreign policy.

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“Obama–Medvedev agreements a breakthrough” The Obama–Medvedev “nuclear” agreements are a breakthrough, because the two countries have shown commitment to stop wasting money on arms, says Fabrice Node-Langloi, the Moscow correspondent of French daily Le Figaro.

“Obama has chosen the easiest part to restart” “Apart from the question of nuclear arms reduction there was hardly any other single crucial issue discussed between the two presidents,” complains international relations analyst Ekaterina Kuznetsova.

“Ukraine and Georgia are off the NATO agenda” “Literally every politician in the West says the NATO membership for these countries is no more considered a real option for the nearest future, but they come closer to the West,” says political analyst Sergey Utkin.

“You can do whatever you want with this world” Choosing an audience of graduates of the Russian New Economic School for his Moscow speech, Barack Obama talked to the future of Russia, assures Sergey Guriyev, the Director of the school.

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"Medvedev-Obama meeting is a breakthrough" The real result of the meeting of the two presidents on two resolutions remains unnoticed, says political analyst Aleksandr Pikaev from the Committee of Scientists for Global Security.

“There are no obvious truths apart from human values” The crisis shows that many theories prove to be, if not useless, then very ambiguous and controversial, says Russian Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich, while speaking to graduates of the New Economic School.

“Obama’s visit is a high in Russian-American relations” The meeting of Obama and Medvedev is very timely and will prove to be effective in reducing the world’s nuclear arsenal as it is a huge economic burden to keep, says political analyst Viktor Linnik.

“Obama and Medvedev are psychologically prepared to cooperate” Both sides have demonstrated their desire to work together, and it is in both personal and global interests for them to cooperate, says political analyst Viktor Kremenyuk.

A good START for Medvedev and Obama Monday was a massive day for modern relations between Russia and America, as the Russian and American presidents held several hours of talks and signed a number of important documents.

“We still do not trust each other 100%” Both Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev are young and not associated with the Cold War era, but they grew up during that time, says the director of international services at RIA-Novosti Russian news agency Samir Shakhbaz.

“It’s a good day, but there’s still a long way to go” "It took eight years for President George W. Bush to mess up US-Russia relations, and it’s going to take more than eight months to get the two talking and working together more closely,” says US analyst John Isaacs.

Outstanding issues at Medvedev-Obama talks “One, obviously, is missile defense in Eastern Europe. The other is the whole question of NATO expansion,” Lawrence Korb, US assistant Secretary of Defense from 1981-1985, told RT.

“Real substance came out of today” – US analyst on Medvedev-Obama meeting “Joint statement agreeing to follow on to the START treaty, which expires at the end of the year, is huge for both countries,” Spencer Boyer from the Center for American Progress told RT.

Solutions are possible – US expert on AMD “Putting ballistic missile interceptors on sea-based destroyers or moving the ground-based interceptors to more southern locations would not bother Russia too much,” said Daryl Kimball from the Arms Control Association.

“New rules for a nuclear world” The issue of the new START treaty is the establishment of a framework for nuclear weapons which has been ignored during the last eight years, says Ivan Safranchuk from the Moscow Institute of International Relations.

“No agreement yet” The negotiations in the Kremlin resulted in a framework for an agreement on nuclear issues, but no decision has yet been made, says Vladimir Orlov, president of PIR Center and Editor-in-Chief of Security Index journal.

“Medvedev developed good chemistry with Obama” President Medvedev has shown his great resolve in developing good chemistry between himself and President Obama, says Melor Sturua, a distinguished journalist for the newspaper Izvestia.

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