WASHINGTION, March 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the U.S. could reach important agreements in the nuclear sphere before a summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations in St. Petersburg, Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday.
Sergei Lavrov told a news conference after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that both countries were interested in the initiatives in the sphere of nuclear energy and security that had been proposed by Vladimir Putin and George Bush
"It is important that this cooperation develops through interaction between experts and leads to important agreements, preferably before the G8 summit," he said.
St. Petersburg, Russia's second city, will host the summit in July.
