| November 23, 2008 Bush and Medvedev talk in Peru
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(NECN/ABC) - US President George W. Bush held talks with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Peru on Saturday.
The White House described their private meeting as a "cordial, but honest and direct exchange."
After their talks, Bush recognized there were differences with Russia during his tenure but he said he had tried to work hard to make it a cordial relationship.
US plans for a missile defense shield in Europe and Russia's war with Georgia had tested relations between the former Cold War foes.
Earlier on Saturday, Bush snared fresh international support on the economy and North Korea, emerging from his final world gathering with modest wins.
Dogged by a collapsing economy late in his presidency, Bush came away from Saturday's session of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru with a commitment from member states to keep trade flowing and shun protectionism .
The 21 leaders of APEC forum rallied behind the economic crisis plan that Bush and other leaders forged last week in Washington at the G20 summit of leading industrialized nations.
It already had the stamp of the world's richest economies and emerging powers, including some APEC nations, and now Bush can tout that other Pacific Rim nations are united in the cause.
Bush also got a boost as the six nations involved in ridding North Korea of its nuclear weaponry agreed
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