After the end of the April 12-13 Nuclear...
Following are Medvedev"s quotes from his speech at the Brookings Institute:
About Russian-U.S. relations
"I am glad that in the past year plus we have managed to change the atmosphere of Russian-American relations [for the better]"
"We have managed to change the atmosphere, there are results from it. I am pleased that I played a part in it"
"We have a complicated history of relations. We either started suffocating each other in embraces or created a great rift between us. We shouldn"t look for differences, we should create long-term pragmatic relations based on the common democratic and economic values of freedom, and common goals in the fight against global threats "
About Russian-U.S. arms reduction treaty
A top Russian senator, Mikhail Margelov, asked the president when the treaty will be submitted to parliament. Medvedev asked: "When will the Americans submit [it]?"
"In the first week of May," was the reply from the audience.