president obama and president medvedev will be meeting again soon in moscow. our group, as other groups, is focusing on the importance of nuclear arms reductions. perhaps what makes us somewhat different is we're not only focused on the near term, that is the negotiations which are now underway between the united states and russia on further strategic arms reductions, but we are in the process of putting together what we call an end to end plan of how actually to get to zero. that means not only another phase of u.s./russia reductions but a multilateral negotiation which would include all nuclear powers to reduce and then go down to

president obama and president medvedev will be meeting soon in moscow. our group's is focusing on reducing nuclear arms. what makes us somewhat different is we're not only focused on the near term, the negotiation which are now under way between the united states and russia on further strategic arms reduction, but we are in the process of putting together what we call an end to end plan of how actually to get to zero. that means not only another phase of u.s.-russia reductions, but a multilateral reduction, which would include all nuclear powers to reduce and then go down to zero. i will be spelling them out in a few minutes. in work we did yesterday and today, the people i will surely introduce focused on the specifics of what a realistic, practical, hard-nosed plan to get to zero would look like. i want to take this opportunity to thank my fellow members of the commission for the work they have done. it is a work in progress. we have not solved all of the problems. we continue to believe this is a realistic goal that can be achieved over the next two d

we will generate greater support for the visions, president obama and president medvedev and members of this commission have embraced getting to we 0. we only have him briefly on the phone, we reject applicable of doing that, igor yurgens who is on the telephone in moscow, he has a few words to make. are you there? >> yes, thank you very much. can you hear me all right? >> we can hear you well. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i am very excited to speak from moscow. richard gave a comprehensive picture of what we would like to achieve. as you said, very needed. without practical steps. 60 years, we have a full step. it is a gigantic test. president and, confirmed global zero is the target for mankind and the russian situation. we are heartened by this statement and we hope what will be achieved in terms of negotiations, declaration of some kind. the secret of the warheads and weapons and missiles during this negotiation, will be a step in the right direction. we wish them very well, try to bring them arguments and we are very thankful for the efforts. thank you very much, lad

pentagon, what kind of outcome do you expect from the meeting between president obama and president medvedev? >> can i address that? >> i can do it very briefly. i don't know, if i did know i obviously would not say it here. i honestly do not. >> i will say that we were briefed today by a senior u.s. official, familiarity with negotiations. the report we received was quite positive. speaking for myself i was left with the impression, the u.s. and russian side are making good progress in those negotiations. dealing with your first, i would like to say the simple answer is that is a nice, round number but there is a vital more thouglitt that goes into it. it is well known that in the current negotiations, it has been published in newspapers, between a reduction of 15 down to 1500 down to 1700, deployed nuclear weapons, weapons that would be deployed on missiles and bombers. the second phase we talk about would include not simply deployed weapons, but also those that were in stockpiles. we are talking about a fairly substantial reduction, but one that is realistic and plausible. it would still,

also president medvedev said over the weekend that russia will agree to cut its nuclear warheads if the u.s. meets its concerns on missile defense meaning

i turn it back to judge medvedev. >> i want to thank professor howard and the panel. [applause] >> john mcginnis. >> this discussion has, i am sure you agree, been enlightening and stimulating. we have learned about fish that only die temporarily and other matters conlan and it is no wonder that this panel has become one of the popular high light features of our conference. we are now going to bring the conference to close. i would like to call judge karen williams. >> i too want to thank each of our panelists today, and also professor howard, for the wonderful job that he did as our moderator. this term included decisions on a variety of subjects, and you all did a masterful job of exploring those decisions providing us with important take aways. there were several other people i would like to thank. chief justice roberts, his willingness to be addressed to the conference. this session added a lot to the discussion. to the most recent supreme court 7. my good colleague, paul newline, i am committed to you for what you did as program chair, this has just been fabulous

petersburg where she met with president medvedev and declared she had no current interest in nato expansion and the russians were very thoughtful about that and please and i only cut off guest for three weeks of this time. [laughter] undoubtedly they wanted to influence the ukrainians and if the europeans got the message that the russians have them in a very uncomfortable position, through the administration they did not really object to that at all. the russians and americans are going to be competing again. that is yesterday's news. i don't think you what they should they will survive so let me go to the radical parts of the book and what other great powers of the 21st century? the bear in mind when in 1900 the predictions would have been the same as well. i am not impressed by a chain and -- china it is a third growth current tree with a majority of people a vast majority third less than $2,000 per year if that much it is two countries at odds and china is essentially an extension of the american economy when we catch a cold day get pneumonia as they say. when a chinese worker becomes un

you know that on april 1st in london at their first meeting president obama and president medvedev agreed that bilateral negotiations should start right away with the objective of achieving a new comprehensive legally binding agreement on reducing and eliminating strategic offensive arms and that the u.s. and russia would seek to record and a new agreement levels of reduction that will be low word than it in the moscow treaty. >> do you have specific numbers yet on those two areas? >> they're talking about specific numbers but i'm not one to talk about specific numbers. we do want to have a significant reduction though >> north korea. could you update the situation with north korea vessel in the chinese see tracked by the u.s. navy and do you have any plan to ask permission to the vessel to make interdiction? >> i'm not going to be able to tell you any more than i told you on friday. i think you saw what secretary gates and admiral mullen said last week. i'm not going to go into any details of any specific ship, except that, of course, as always, we call upon north korea to refrain from p