NPR just reported that on President Bush's stopover in Moscow today en route to Asia, he and Laura Bush met with Russian President Putin, and offered Russia membership in WTO. My question: in return for Russian agreement to back sanctions on Iran?

More from the AP:

... Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Alexei Gromov as saying the two presidents discussed the Iranian nuclear program, the situation in the Middle East and nuclear nonproliferation.

Gromov also confirmed that a U.S.-Russian agreement on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization was being readied for signing in Hanoi.

National security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, talking to reporters aboard Air Force One after Bush left, said the president's get-together with Putin "was a social meeting, as we said it would be. This was a refueling stop."

But Hadley also said the two men "talked a little bit about proliferation generally" with regard to Iran and North Korea. He also said he had spoken with his Russian counterpart, Igor Ivanov, about efforts to reach agreement on a new U.N. security resolution on Iran.

Posted by Laura at November 15, 2006 04:33 PM