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    Ooops.

    Clinton, Lavrov push wrong reset button on ties

    GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red "reset button" to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word "reset" was mistranslated into the Russian for "overcharge."

    "I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship and so we will do it together," said Clinton, presenting Lavrov with a palm-sized yellow box with a red button.

    Clinton joked to Lavrov: "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?"

    "You got it wrong," said Lavrov, smiling as the two pushed the reset button together before dinner at a Geneva hotel.

    He told Clinton the word "Peregruzka" meant "overcharge," to which Clinton replied: "We won't let you do that to us."

    "We mean it and we look forward to it," she said of "resetting" the relationship, a phrase that Joe Biden first used at a security conference in Munich.

    Lavrov said he would put the gift on his desk.

    (Reporting by Sue Pleming; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

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    Should've just given him this and let them guess what it meant:


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    That or some Nintendo cuff links.


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    It's been a rough week for international gift giving. At this rate Biden will present the Austrian prime minister with an autographed photo of Steve Irwin by the end of the month.

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