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US and Russia Make Nuclear Progress
Russia
and the United States have made "substantial progress" on a nuclear
arms control deal and other security issues, the US secretary of state
said.
Hillary Clinton, speaking alongside Sergei Lavrov, the Russian
foreign minister, after talks in Moscow, said she expected the two
sides to sign a successor to an expired 1991 treaty soon.
Mar 18, 2010
Russia
and the United States have made "substantial progress" on a nuclear
arms control deal and other security issues, the US secretary of state
said.
Hillary Clinton, speaking alongside Sergei Lavrov, the Russian
foreign minister, after talks in Moscow, said she expected the two
sides to sign a successor to an expired 1991 treaty soon.
"The
results of the latest negotiation rounds lead us to believe we'll be
reaching a final agreement soon," she said, on the first of two days of
talks in Moscow.
Lavrov on Thursday said that both countries were "at the finish line" in negotiations for a new nuclear arms control agreement.
The
long-awaited replacement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty - which
expired on December 5 - is a pillar of the so-called reset in relations
between the Cold War foes.
Barack Obama, the US president, and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian
president, called for a quick signing at their Moscow summit in July,
but negotiations stalled over issues of counting, verification and US
plans for a missile defense system in Europe.
Broad agreements
Clinton arrived in Moscow on Thursday and was to be joined by George
Mitchell, President Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, for talks
with diplomats from Russia, the EU and the UN.
They were to discuss the crisis in US-Israeli relations and stalled efforts to restart Middle East peace negotiations.
Clinton was meeting one-on-one with Lavrov, and the two were then to meet their UN and EU colleagues on Thursday night.
Together they form the so-called Quartet of Middle East peacemakers
who are scheduled to hold formal talks on the peace process on Friday.
Source:
Agencies
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Russia
and the United States have made "substantial progress" on a nuclear
arms control deal and other security issues, the US secretary of state
said.
Hillary Clinton, speaking alongside Sergei Lavrov, the Russian
foreign minister, after talks in Moscow, said she expected the two
sides to sign a successor to an expired 1991 treaty soon.
"The
results of the latest negotiation rounds lead us to believe we'll be
reaching a final agreement soon," she said, on the first of two days of
talks in Moscow.
Lavrov on Thursday said that both countries were "at the finish line" in negotiations for a new nuclear arms control agreement.
The
long-awaited replacement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty - which
expired on December 5 - is a pillar of the so-called reset in relations
between the Cold War foes.
Barack Obama, the US president, and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian
president, called for a quick signing at their Moscow summit in July,
but negotiations stalled over issues of counting, verification and US
plans for a missile defense system in Europe.
Broad agreements
Clinton arrived in Moscow on Thursday and was to be joined by George
Mitchell, President Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, for talks
with diplomats from Russia, the EU and the UN.
They were to discuss the crisis in US-Israeli relations and stalled efforts to restart Middle East peace negotiations.
Clinton was meeting one-on-one with Lavrov, and the two were then to meet their UN and EU colleagues on Thursday night.
Together they form the so-called Quartet of Middle East peacemakers
who are scheduled to hold formal talks on the peace process on Friday.
Source:
Agencies
Russia
and the United States have made "substantial progress" on a nuclear
arms control deal and other security issues, the US secretary of state
said.
Hillary Clinton, speaking alongside Sergei Lavrov, the Russian
foreign minister, after talks in Moscow, said she expected the two
sides to sign a successor to an expired 1991 treaty soon.
"The
results of the latest negotiation rounds lead us to believe we'll be
reaching a final agreement soon," she said, on the first of two days of
talks in Moscow.
Lavrov on Thursday said that both countries were "at the finish line" in negotiations for a new nuclear arms control agreement.
The
long-awaited replacement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty - which
expired on December 5 - is a pillar of the so-called reset in relations
between the Cold War foes.
Barack Obama, the US president, and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian
president, called for a quick signing at their Moscow summit in July,
but negotiations stalled over issues of counting, verification and US
plans for a missile defense system in Europe.
Broad agreements
Clinton arrived in Moscow on Thursday and was to be joined by George
Mitchell, President Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, for talks
with diplomats from Russia, the EU and the UN.
They were to discuss the crisis in US-Israeli relations and stalled efforts to restart Middle East peace negotiations.
Clinton was meeting one-on-one with Lavrov, and the two were then to meet their UN and EU colleagues on Thursday night.
Together they form the so-called Quartet of Middle East peacemakers
who are scheduled to hold formal talks on the peace process on Friday.
Source:
Agencies
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