According to Sergey Lavrov, Friday’s meeting proved that relations between Moscow and Washington “are on the rise” and have achieved “new dynamics.” Citing president Medvedev, the Russian top diplomat said that within the last year the two states “succeeded in putting into effect a real reset, stopped the degrading in our relations that we had witnessed before the Obama administration came to power, and provided for unprecedented insensitivity of contacts at all levels of executive power.”
The US Secretary of State agreed with the statement, dubbing the reset “a success.”
Hillary Clinton arrived in Moscow on Thursday to meet with the Russian Foreign Minister, the President, and to take part in the session of the Middle East Quartet comprised of the UN, the EU, Russia and the US. Following the crucial meeting of the mediators seeking a solution to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian standoff, Clinton met with Medvedev in his Barvikha residence outside the capital.
Hillary Clinton arrived in Moscow on Thursday to meet with the Russian Foreign Minister, the President, and to take part in the session of the Middle East Quartet comprised of the UN, the EU, Russia and the US. Following the crucial meeting of the mediators seeking a solution to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian standoff, Clinton met with Medvedev in his Barvikha residence outside the capital.
The meeting – which was also attended by a bunch of top level diplomats from both states – took place behind closed doors. Following the talks, Clinton and Lavrov gave a media conference.
Discussing his personal impressions of the meeting, the Russian foreign minister echoed Medvedev’s opinion over the successful reset in Russian-American relations and added that “we should not stop at this point, and continue moving forwards.”
Lavrov described the current visit of the US Secretary of State with a metaphor, saying it was like an “in-flight refueling.”
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