How effectively are Washington and Moscow working together on Afghanistan?
What does the future hold? Are there opportunities for further cooperation? And continuing tension? What are the priorities for Secretary Clinton’s visit to Moscow? Secretary Clinton will go to Moscow on this trip, I think, basically as a follow-up to the July summit, and her priorities will be in many ways, those outlined by the two presidents. Certainly, she will be looking at the progress on START negotiations, whether to reach a follow-up agreement—it’s my sense that she will be doing everything possible to encourage rapid progress as they really want to finish this by December 5, and I think there’s a good chance they will. I think she will also be talking with the Russians about other aspects of the nonproliferation agenda. We have an ambitious outline of what we want to do over the next couple of years and it seems to me that she is going to be pushing to try to move forward on those areas where we have work to do. She’ll certainly look also at how we’re doing on the Afghan Tran
