WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House disclosed Monday that President Barack Obama met former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week, as the United States and Russia intensify efforts to "reset" strained relations.
Gorbachev was at a White House meeting with Vice President Joe Biden on Friday when Obama informally dropped by, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
The announcement comes just over a week before the US president meets Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in London.
"The president tends to roam around the larger house and sometimes walks into meetings that weren't previously on his schedule," Gibbs said, when asked why the meeting had not been made public before.
[Sure. I'm sure it's exactly like that. - Ed.]
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