Following an hour-long meeting in New York on Wednesday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, United States President Barack Obama said the two leaders “spent the bulk of our time talking about Iran”. Indeed, this was exactly what White House spokesman Robert Gibbs had anticipated.
On the other hand, Medvedev said the leaders “discussed a range of issues” and “devoted lots of our time to the Iranian problem”. This was also the advance projection given by the Kremlin press secretary Natalya Timakova, who said the Russian side viewed the New York meeting as “an important ‘checkpoint’ after the July summit in Moscow” and the talks would “most likely promote the settlement of disputed issues” regarding a new arms reduction agreement.
