Washington (Platts)--7Jul2008

The US and Russia will continue working closely to urge Iran "to give up
its desire to enrich uranium," President George W. Bush said July 7 before the
start of the G8 summit in Toyako, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Speaking
at a news conference with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Bush singled out
the enrichment issue as an area of agreement between the two countries.
Medvedev said there were other areas where the two leaders shared the same
views, including matters on North Korea, though he did not provide any
specific examples. After his arrival July 6, Bush met privately with Japanese
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to discuss, among other topics, the coordination
of future six-party talks and a strategy to ensure North Korea has
relinquished the technologies needed to develop a nuclear weapon,
administration officials said.