MOSCOW - Issues that Russian and U.S. presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama will raise at a meeting on Saturday include a plan to loosen visa rules for Russians traveling to the United States and Americans traveling to Russia, a Medvedev aide said.
Medvedev and Obama will meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu.
The agenda for the meeting "includes issues of more extensive contact between people, including the simplification of the current visa regime, and there is a near-term plan to exchange notes on an agreement for visa simplification," presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told reporters.
"As regards other issues in the bilateral dossier, the adoption issue will be raised with emphasis on the need to prevent the abuse of children in the United States who have been adopted from Russia," he said.
A Russian-U.S. agreement to protect the rights of such children that was signed in July "is undergoing internal state procedures necessary for its entry into force," Prikhodko said.
