Russia and the United States have improved bilateral relations during the past year, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.
"I am glad that in the past year plus we have managed to change the atmosphere of Russian-American relations [for the better]," Medvedev said at Brookings Institution, a U.S. think tank based in Washington, D.C.
"I am pleased that I have a part in it," the Russian president, who spoke after the end of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington that gathered over 40 world leaders.
Russia and the United States have been following the route of "resetting" their relations and ridding them of Cold War-era holdbacks since Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama announced the new policy of bilateral ties in April 2009.
The U.S. summit came after the signing of a new strategic arms reduction treaty by Obama and Medvedev in Prague on April 8.
In the treaty, the two countries, which possess about 90% of global arsenals of nuclear weapons, agreed to reduce the number of nuclear warheads to 1,550 on each side and the number of deployed and non-deployed delivery vehicles to 800 on each side.
WASHINGTON, April 14 (RIA Novosti)
