Rus, US presidents to discuss whole gamut of Russo-American relat
By Ksenia Kaminskaya, Tigran Liloyan

ITAR-TASS News Agency
February 17, 2005 Thursday

YEREVAN, February 17 — “The whole gamut of Russo-American relations”
will be on the agenda of the meeting of the presidents of Russia
and the United States in Bratislava, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov, who wound up his visit to Armenia, said here on Thursday.

“The agenda will encompass the security area, the fight against
terrorism and illegal arms-and-drugs trafficking, and the prevention
of terrorists getting hold of arms”, the minister said. “There will
be on the agenda also the energy dialogue, matters of commercial,
economic, investment interaction between Russia and the United States,
and all the regional conflicts, particularly those that are connected
one way or another with the need to strengthen the non-proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction”, Lavrov said.

“We expect the summit in Bratislava to sum up the results of the
present stage of the work being done on the instruction of the two
presidents in virtually every direction of bilateral relations, on
many regional and international questions”, the foreign minister said.

“We also expect the presidents, summing up the results of the work
done, to decide on the new agenda and set additional tasks to speed
up the work in the areas, in which they will find it not prompt and
efficient enough, and also to spread the dialogue to new areas”, Lavrov
said. He expects “specific arrangements of the two presidents”. “They
got used to working in such a spirit, and it is in this spirit that
they conduct their summits”, Lavrov said.