US nuclear negotiator hopes ‘New START’ with Russia can spur global disarmament action
By APThursday, June 3, 2010
US wants global action on nuclear bomb material
GENEVA — The chief U.S. negotiator of the new U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty wants similar progress from global disarmament talks.
Rose Gottemoeller says she hopes the “New START” signed by Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama in April will spur the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament to begin talks this summer on banning the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium needed for atomic bombs.
Pakistan opposes the negotiations unless rival India makes other concessions.
Gottemoeller says she will brief the Geneva-based body Thursday. It hasn’t scored a success since the 1996 deal to ban nuclear weapons tests.
Gottemoeller says U.S. Senate approval for START could lead to the long-awaited U.S. ratification of the test ban treaty.
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