MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. President Barack
Obama will pay an official visit to Russia on an invitation
from his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on July 6-8, the
Kremlin said Monday.
The agreement on the visit was reached at the first
meeting of Medvedev and Obama on April 1 in London at a G20
summit, but the exact date was not indicated.
Obama said Thursday after a meeting with Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov that Moscow and Washington had a great
chance to "reset" relations.
"We have an excellent opportunity to reset the
relationship between the United States and Russia on a whole
host of issues," Obama said after talks in Washington with
Russia's top diplomat.
The term "reset" has been used on a number of occasions by
the Obama administration with relation to Russia-U.S. ties. In
March, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Lavrov
with a yellow box with a large red "reset" button on it, which
she asked Lavrov to push with her.
On either side of the button the word "reset" was written
in English and what was supposed to be a Russian translation.
However, Washington's translators had made a mistake, writing
the Russian for "overload" on it instead.
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