Barack Obama actually said...

I am hopeful that the meetings that we've had so far and the meetings that we expect to have throughout the course of this year will be of mutual benefit to both countries.

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Remarks Following a Meeting With Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia

05/06/2009

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