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First American-Russian Correspondence, "We Must Protect Relations From Deteriorating".
(Washington-1/28/2009 1:54 A.M.)

http://www.asahi.com/international/update/0128/TKY200901270400.html

On the 27th, President Obama called Russian President Medvedev for the first time to focus on repairing the deteriorating U.S.-Russian relations, according to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

Mr. Obama pointed out that the two countries have large roles to fill in the curtailing of both nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation. He also emphasized the importance of cooperation in the solving of the world's financial crisis.

Both agreed that as two post-Cold War leaders, both countries could benefit from creating fundamentally different U.S.-Russian relations compared with the past.

Under the Bush Administration, European Missile Defense was a sticking point for Russia while the Russian invasion of Georgia was one for the U.S. That resulted in the coldest relations between the two countries since the Cold War.

Asahi Shinbun