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President Barack Obama meets Dmitry Medvedev of Russia
By youtube.com President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama met at the sidelines of the APEC summit in Honolulu. Following their talks the two presidents made statements for the press. Important: this video is by Press Office of the President of Russia, and can be viewed here: kremlin.ru The re-use of this video is based on the appropriate authorization from Presidential Press and Information Office, the license is available here: eng.kremlin.ru PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BARACK OBAMA: Well, I want to welcome my friend, Dmitry Medvedev, to my birthplace, Honolulu, Hawaii. My understanding is that he's been spotted in a Hawaiian shirt walking and enjoying the good weather. And so I don't know if anybody got pictures of this, but I'm glad that he's enjoying himself so far. President Medvedev and I have I think successfully established the reset of US- Russia relationships -- the US-- Russian relationship over the last several years. And it has borne concrete fruit in the form of the New START Treaty, the 123 Agreement, the work that we did together imposing sanctions on Iran, and most recently, the efforts that we've made on Russia's WTO accession. Today, we had a wide-ranging discussion. It focused on a number of security issues where the US and Russia have a significant interest. We discussed Afghanistan and our plan to transition, and the importance all the regional parties assisting the Afghan government in stabilizing the country for <b>...</b>