Russian government is mainly concerned about the following EXCEPT [br] [origina

News Item 1
    Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov says a new legally binding Russian-American treaty on strategic offensive arms is his government’s top priority, In a speech to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Lavrov outlined other area of concern including the spread of nuclear weapons and the prevention of an armed race in outer space.
    Sergei Lavrov says he believes Russia can work with the new Obama administration in a way it was not able to with the previous administration. He says Washington seems open to dealing with questions of multi-lateral disarmament and this bodes well for future negotiations between the two countries on a variety of difficult issues.
    US and Russian experts are working on an arms control plan for US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, to discuss when they meet for the first time at the G20 summit in London on April 2.