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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confers with Special Assistant to the President Gary Samore, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, N.Y., September 23, 2009. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held a bilateral meeting at the Waldorf during the U.N. General Assembly. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)