Clinton Trades Ideas with World Leaders at European Summit
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Three days of summit talks in Moscow between President Clinton and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are under way. Their discussions are expected to focus on changes Washington wants and Moscow opposes in a 1972 arms-control treaty. Mr. Clinton's Russian visit follows a week-long trip to Europe, where he traded ideas on a variety of issues with other world leaders. CNN's Chris Burns has more on that.</s>CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Begun by President Clinton as brainstorming sessions between American and European leaders, this meeting on progressive governance added heads of state from South America and South Africa. They talked about how advanced and developing economies should adapt to an increasingly globalized and technological world without losing sight of social and environmental concerns -- lofty ideals with the hope of bringing practical results. The leading issues: how to bring about freer trade, fight pollution and AIDS, spread technology to poorer nations, boost education, and get more of the world plugged into the Internet.</s>WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I believe we ought to try to have Internet connections with printers in all the poorest villages where we're trying to get children into schools and give them modern education, because, for example, the entire Encyclopedia Britannica is now on the Internet. And if we -- if you have a printer and a computer in a poor village, you don't have to be able to afford textbooks anymore. And it's a far more efficient way for government to spread universal information.</s>BURNS: Clinton sought to give the high-level talk shop a forward look. A network of experts will meet in Portugal next month, and the Group of Eight leaders will discuss these issues at their summit in Okinawa later in July. (on camera): One leader who stayed away was British Prime Minister Tony Blair. President Clinton said he understood, adding progressive governance and the Third Way are pro-family. Chris Burns, CNN, Berlin.