![]() ![]() The concept was where we have common interests, we should work together, and where we don’t, where our interests diverge, we would continue to stand up for our principles and values. The fundamental idea behind it was that the United States and Russia should look for areas where they could cooperate together to advance shared interests in nuclear disarmament, in sanctions on Iran and North Korea, and help Russia could give us in the war in Afghanistan, etc. It was actually Vice President Biden who first used the word "reset" in his speech at the Munich Security Conference a few weeks earlier, but it was left to Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Lavrov to work out what exactly that meant. The goal of that meeting was actually to establish this thing called the reset. Secretary Clinton met with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of Russia in Geneva, on neutral ground in Switzerland, in early 2009. Jake Sullivan was a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Geoeconomics and Strategy Program and also Magro Family Distinguished Fellow at Dartmouth College. ![]()
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