US President Obama: We Share Common Goals with Russia

World | July 7, 2009, Tuesday // 11:49
Obama: Russia, US Share Common Goals: US President Obama: We Share Common Goals with Russia Photo by BGNES

US President Barack Obama has urged Russia to turn from the past, emphasising the common goals the US shares with its former Cold War rival.

He told young graduates in Moscow they were the "last generation" to be born in a "divided world", the BBC reported.

Obama sought to reassure the country that the US sought a "strong, peaceful and prosperous" Russia.

The speech comes on the second day of Obama's visit to Moscow and followed his first meeting with Vladimir Putin.

During the breakfast talks he told the former president turned prime minister that he had done "extraordinary work" leading Russia.

In his speech, Obama said both Russia and the US had shared common goals in, for example, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

"It is not for me to define Russia's national interests, but I can tell you about America's, and I believe that you will see we share common ground," he told the audience at the New Economic School in Moscow.

Obama said that neither the US nor Russia would benefit from a nuclear arms race in East Asia or the Middle East.

Among the deals signed Monday between the two countries was a pact to negotiate a new arms control treaty to replace the 1991 Start I pact which expires in December.

A new agreement could see the two countries reducing their nuclear warheads by up to a third, to below 1 700 each within seven years of the treaty's signing.

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