Medvedev, Obama pledge to complete Russia's WTO talks

The decision was announced in a joint statement made by the presidents following their meeting in London in the run-up to a summit of the Group of Twenty (G20).

Russia and the U.S. completed their bilateral WTO talks in 2006 but Russia has yet to complete multilateral talks on accession.
The negotiations stalled last year in the aftermath of Russia's military conflict with Georgia.

The presidents also agreed to hold talks on concluding a new strategic arms reduction treaty by December.

Obama and Medvedev said, however, that they still had disagreements over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in Europe.

Obama and Medvedev also decided to hold their next meeting in July in Moscow.