Obama and Medvedev soon in New York

Presidents of Russia and the U.S., Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, will meet on 23 September in New York, where he will attend the UN General Assembly, said the head of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Lavrov at a press conference in Moscow, said that when the leaders of the two countries will be presented a report on the progress of negotiations on concluding a future agreement on limiting strategic offensive weapons, as the 5th December highlights the current START-1.

The Russian minister said that "a task to be solved a lot of questions and it is a" serious document ", and announced that until the expiration of the Agreement on strategic offensive weapons to be held in December, four, five rounds of consultation.

Lavrov said that all issues be resolved "in a package, because the document prepared by the principle of" anything not in compliance while not all agree on, "he said Itar-Tass.

Minister of Foreign Affairs on 3 September said that the delegation should fit within the deadlines set by the presidents of two countries and conclude it before the end of the old in December this year.

"Such a task is set, for now, no other terms not mentioned," said Lavrov, acknowledged that questions a lot of negotiations, "they are quite complicated, and concern the security of Russia and the United States and strategic stability."

START-1, which expires on 5th December 2009, signed in 1991. year, when Moscow and Washington pledged to reduce the number of nuclear warheads to a maximum of 6000, and their "carriers" of the highest 1600.

Russia and the United States 1993rd signed the START-2, which provides a significant reduction in intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads.

Russia, however, 2002. resigned from the agreement in response to U.S. withdrawal from the agreement from 1972. year, which prohibited the formation protivraketnih system.

Bilateral agreement on reducing strategic ofanzivanih potential in the 1700 to 2200 nuclear charge to 31 December 2012, signed on 24 May 2002. in Moscow.