By BEN FELLER
Associated Press
July 2, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants to produce early results after promising to reset relations with Russia, hoping to emerge from a Moscow summit next week with clear progress on reducing both nations' nuclear arsenals and changing the way the Russian people view the United States.
Obama's pursuit of a new U.S.-Russia nuclear arms pact to replace one that expires in December has dominated the attention focused on his trip to Moscow, the first stop in a weeklong trek that also will take him to Italy and Ghana.
But White House aides, describing the trip in detail for the first time on Wednesday, sought to put the expectations in broader terms.
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