Meeting in Baku
Today’s NATO summit in Lisbon is so important for its participants that each side — having expected certain results — didn’t hesitate to do its part of the homework in order to demonstrate their true intentions to their partners. American President publicly given his Russian colleague to understand that he remembers all of their preliminary oral arrangements. He gathered some sort of an Advisory Council and — in the presence of his aides, including Henry Kissinger (creator of the „shuttle diplomacy” term) — held a speech regarding the START treaty. Railroading the latter through the Congress after his failure at the mid-term elections wouldn’t be a piece of cake this time.
Besides that, Obama touched another issues of the Russo-American partnership. President recognized significant and even crucial Russian role in maintaining of the international security — and especially in the matters of restraining Iran within the framework of peaceful nuclear program and cooperation with NATO in Afghanistan. President Medvedev has also diligently done his homework. During the yesterday summit in Baku he met Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, having demonstrated his willingnes to exert pressure upon Iran and simultaneously ease the tensions in Russo-Iranian relationship. After that meeting, Sergey Prikhodko — President’s aide on foreign policy matters — stated that relations between the Russian Federation and Iran are improving. That was essentially important after the Iranian resentment caused by the Russian refusal to supply Iranians with the S-300 anti-missile complexes. Prikhodko also mentioned Russian citizen Viktor But, who was arrested for the illegal arms trade. After the abrupt protest of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he voiced up an opinion that But is to face the American justice — which sounded much better for the international policy matters.
So both sides have got A-marks for their homework. Let’s see if they also wouldn’t flunk the exams.
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