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MAY 19, 2003
U.S.-Russian Summit President George W. Bush and his team are preparing to meet Russian President Vladimir V. Putin at a summit in St. Petersburg on June 1, but for the first time in the leaders' three-year relationship, the Americans are uncertain of the reception they will receive. Putin staunchly opposed the U.S. and British-led war in Iraq and treated British Prime Minister Tony Blair scornfully at a Moscow tête-à-tête on Apr. 29. Indeed, Putin openly mocked the coalition's inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and reiterated Russian opposition to lifting U.N. sanctions on the country. Bush and Putin are expected to sign a treaty in St. Petersburg making deep cuts in strategic nuclear arms arsenals -- and aides say Bush is hopeful of getting the U.S.-Russian strategic partnership back on track. In particular, Washington wants Russia to back the immediate lifting of sanctions on Iraq and stop assisting Iran on developing its nuclear power industry, which the Bush Administration thinks may be a weapons program in disguise. The Kremlin aims to revive plans to secure a role in helping the U.S. construct missile-defense systems, a potential boon for Russian industry. But Putin's parallel efforts to build closer security ties with France and other Iraq war opponents are irritating Washington. Bush Administration officials say Putin must stop all the juggling and choose between a U.S.-led or France-led Western security alliance. "It's up to the Russians," says a senior official in Moscow.  By Paul Starobin in Moscow Edited by Rose Brady Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.  Add BusinessWeek news to your Web site with our headline feed. Click to buy an e-print or reprint of a BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek Online story or video. To subscribe online to BusinessWeek magazine, please click here. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page  | | |
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