U.S. and Russian Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin will hold a long-planned nuclear arms reduction summit in Moscow May 23, Russian officials said yesterday (see GSN, Jan. 22).

After their meeting in Moscow, Bush and Putin will spend two days in St. Petersburg, the Russian officials said.  U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov set the summit date and preliminary details during a recent meeting at the Russian Embassy in Washington, according to the Associated Press.

Relations between the United States and Russia are “good,” Kasyanov said, adding that the two countries would cooperate in a number of areas (Associated Press /CNN.com, Jan. 31).

Several other preliminary meetings are scheduled before the Bush-Putin summit in May.  Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov will meet with a U.S. delegation headed by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz at a security conference in Munich this weekend.  Another round of preliminary talks is scheduled for Feb. 19 in Moscow (Yahoo.com, Feb. 1).

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