Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.
They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

