WASHINGTON. Sept 14 (Interfax) - Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will sign two documents based on outcomes of their talks in Washington on Wednesday, Gates said in an exclusive interview with Interfax.
"We will sign two documents. One will be a memorandum of understanding that updates an earlier agreement signed in 1993 that basically is an umbrella in terms of ways in which we can cooperate, interact with one another," Gates said.
"The other is a defense relations working group that is actually a -- called for under the bilateral presidential commission that Presidents Obama and Medvedev signed. And that really is more concrete in terms of specific areas where we can see if we can increase our cooperation, but also exchanges of information dealing with global and regional threats and future cooperation," he said.
"As I have watched the minister undertake his reform efforts in Russia, I've been impressed by their breadth and the degree to which some of the efforts he's undertaking parallel those that I'm trying to undertake here in the United States," Gates said.