MOSCOW--Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Friday celebrated his American counterpart Barack Obama as "Leader fulfilling its promises" after the tough Senate ratification this week of a large arms reduction Treaty.
"He in his push for the ratification of this very important document that new START under very difficult conditions, success, did a great job," Mr Medvedev said in its annual year-end interview with Russian television.
European Pressphoto Agency President Dmitry Medvedev in his annual year-end interview with Russian television.Shortly after Mr. defenders comments voted preliminary approval to the Treaty give the lower House of the Russian Parliament, the Duma by an overwhelming majority. The Kremlin party dominated United Russia the legislature, the ratification a virtual certainty, although legislators said final approval will not come up early next year.
To talk in the Duma before the vote, said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ratify failure "Would be a devastating blow to our reputation."
Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said the Treaty limits allow to extend Russia "Our forces, pretty much, while the will have American side, his arms cut."
The Parliament lower House of Russia could ratify the new START Treaty with the United States until the end of the year and may this week.The new START Treaty would limit each country strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550 down from the current ceiling of 2,200. It would restore a system for checking, which fell last year upon expiry of a prior control arms deal had.
Obama management had hard for the ratification of the Convention, a focus of their efforts on the "Reset relations with Moscow" pushed. A number of Republican senators criticized business as overly restrictive U.S. capabilities. You have added a number of amendments to ratification resolution on issues such as missile defense.
Dismissed in the Duma Friday, Mr Lavrov those as non-binding, say "change a single letter of the Treaty."
He insisted that language in the preamble of the Treaty link borders on offensive weapons with Raketenabwehr--a key Russian demand that the Senate resolution befragt-- is legally binding. If a "comprehensive global" created the U.S. missile defense system, Russia would indicate he said as reasons to withdraw from the contract.
In his TV interview, Mr Medvedev said he hoped that any threat to the warming trend in US-Russian relations from the Republican victory in elections November of's midterm "would be minimized."
"I hope that this course will continue to have American society and the American company enough tact and restraint and it will be a bit harder for President Obama but it is in the situation, will deal with these problems," said Mr Medvedev.
The wide-ranging interview barely a week after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived instead of Mr defenders predecessor as President and widely regarded as a ruling in Russia tandem, the mighty man of a question and answer session in the televised.
Mr Medvedev renewed modernise its calls for greater openness and political competition, but a lack of results from his drive Russia economy recorded.
His sound dramatically by Mr Putin's in response to a question about the trial version of oil Tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky now waiting difference to a judgment in Moscow. Mr Medvedev, a lawyer, said neither he nor any other official has the right of the case, until a judgment rendered will comment. The Court is planned, read his decision Monday to start.
Last week Mr spoke hard Putin, the former billionaire, say "A prison thief should sit" and proposes the Tycoon murders was involved. Mr Putin later clarified that he referring to Mr Khodorkovsky 2005 conviction on charges of tax evasion and fraud. He now faces new charges of embezzlement and money laundering, could keep him in jail until at least 2017.
In a sharply worded article Russian Nezavisimaya gazeta newspaper said Friday, Mr Khodorkovsky he felt compassion for the Prime Minister, whom he described as fears and self-isolated man.
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