| April 2009 |
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Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen will become NATO's new secretary general, the alliance's outgoing secretary general said Saturday. 
The leaders of NATO members have agreed to resume the work of the Russia-NATO Council, suspended by the alliance unilaterally after the Georgian conflict last year, the German chancellor said Saturday. 
Personal relations between the Russian and U.S. presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, will contribute to the resolution of bilateral issues, the Russian foreign minister said Saturday. 
Chile can become a platform for Russia to develop its relations with the rest of Latin America, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday after talks with his Chilean counterpart, Michelle Bachelet. 
President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that Russia would like to join the World Trade Organization but added that the process of joining it should not be endless. Russia has been negotiating its entry into the global trade body for more than 15 years.

U.S. President Barack Obama can expect a mixed reception when he arrives in the Czech Republic on Saturday for a U.S.-EU summit as Czechs wait to protest U.S. plans for a missile shield in their country. 
Italy's prime minister violated ceremonial procedure at Saturday's NATO summit marking the alliance's 60th anniversary, snubbing German Chancellor Angela Merkel to talk on his mobile phone
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will arrive in Kazakhstan on Monday for talks with his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, his press service said on Saturday. 
With security services around the world closely watching for North Korea's imminent rocket launch, Japan's Defense Ministry said on Saturday an earlier report that the rocket had blasted off was a "false alarm." 
Fourteen people were killed when a lone gunman stormed an immigration center in Binghamton, near New York, the local police chief told a news conference.



