The bilateral talks between Russia and the United States of America seem to be heading in the right direction as the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev stated that, the nuclear arms reduction treaty is a possibility that could be realized as early as by the end of this year. However, he also stressed on the fact that, other nuclear weaponized nations must also take the initiate to the join the disarmament treaty for the deal to be successful.

In response to the reports of conflicts between the Mr. Medvedev and the Russian Prime Minister and former President, Vladimir Putin, the Russian President said that, the two leaders work in harmony and the reports of increasing rifts between the two are overblown. Many analysts have been saying that, even with the Mr. Medvedev as the President, it is  Mr. Putin who is making the final decisions and monopolizing the Russian foreign policies. In a statement, President Medvedev said,

“No one must have any doubts that our ‘tandem’ has been working quite harmoniously. As you can see, predictions that we will have a falling out so far have failed to materialize. The U.S.-Russian arms control talks are moving at a good pace. We have every chance to agree on a new treaty, determine new (weapons) levels and control measures and sign a legally binding document in the end of the year.”

The current Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that signed on by both Russia and the United States, that was signed in the year 1991, has proven successful significantly reducing the number of the nuclear weapons on both sides, but is slated to expire on December 3rd, 2009. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the President of United States, Barrack Obama had met in the month of July this year for a one to one talks in regards to the arms reduction treaty and unanimously agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenal to between 1,500 and 1,675 nuclear weapon fixing a sever years deadline.

Via Associated Press.