How are talks between Obama and Medvedev on nuclear arms going?”
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet on Friday during a global climate conference in Copenhagen to discuss rocky efforts to reach a new nuclear arms reduction treaty. With U.S. and Russian negotiators still grappling with differences over any final deal, a senior U.S. official said there were “still no real prospects for a signing” when the two leaders meet. The talks in the Danish capital follow Russia’s call on Thursday for simpler verification procedures for planned cuts in nuclear weapons being discussed with the United States, while Washington insisted it wanted a deal that worked for both former Cold War foes. “It’s high time to get rid of excessive suspiciousness,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow. Talks between the world’s two largest nuclear powers to find a replacement for the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START-1, have stumbled in recent weeks, although both sides say they expect an agreement to
