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Zbigniew Brzezinski, the US National Security Adviser 1977-1981, comments in an opinion editorial in The Financial Times that President Barack Obama should have three central goals in mind when he meets Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

According to Brzezinski, Obama should:

• "Advance US-Russian co-operation in areas where our interests coincide;
• Emphasize the mutual benefits in handling disagreements between the two countries within internationally respected 'rules of the game';
• Help shape a geopolitical context in which Russia becomes increasingly conscious of its own interest in eventually becoming a genuinely post-imperial partner of the Euro-Atlantic community."