Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his US counterpart Barack Obama will make joint declarations on bilateral ties and their strategic weapons arsenals at a G20 meeting in London, a top Kremlin advisor said.

"We will end up with two presidential declarations – a general one about Russian-American relations and one about strategic offensive arms," Medvedev's foreign policy advisor Sergei Prikhodko said.

"The texts are turning out well and should be starting point for drawing up future work," he said, according to Russian news agencies. The pair are due to meet on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in London on 2 April.

He expressed hope Medvedev and Obama would then make initial agreements on a renewal of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a Cold War disarmament pact that expires in December, at a subsequent meeting after the G20.

AFP