Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had working meetings with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the director of the Foreign Ministry’s department for security and disarmament, Anatoly Antonov, who heads the Russian delegation at the Russian-U.S. negotiations on a new START treaty, the Kremlin press service reported on Tuesday.
The meeting highlighted the issues of drafting a new treaty under the document titled joint understanding on further reduction and limitations of strategic offensive weapons signed by the presidents of Russia and the United States during U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit in Moscow in July 2009.
