Reports: Kremlin adviser says Russia and US will complete talks on new START deal this month
By APTuesday, December 8, 2009
Russian official: arms deal with US this month
MOSCOW — A top Kremlin official is telling Russian news agencies that Moscow and Washington expect to strike a new nuclear arms treaty this month.
The START I treaty signed in 1991 expired Friday. It obliged each country to cut its nuclear warheads by at least a quarter, to about 6,000 and included detailed verification procedures.
Interfax and RIA Novosti news agencies quoted presidential adviser Arkady Dvorkovich as saying Tuesday that Russia and the U.S. intend to finalize talks on a successor deal this month.
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed at a Moscow summit in July to cut the number of nuclear warheads each possesses to between 1,500 and 1,675 within seven years as part of a broad new treaty.
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