START II 95% Confirmed
Posted on January 24, 2010 by Shay Greenberg for Luckyroom.com
The US-Russian agreement on a landmark treaty on reducing nuclear weapons has been “95%” confirmed according to statements of the Russian President. “The negotiations are going well, as 95% of the new issues have been agreed,” said Dmitriy Anatolyevich Medvedev as reported by Interfax news agency.
The American president and the Russian president last year had revealed their plans to proceed with replacing the ‘Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty” in order to reduce the arsenals of the two major nuclear superpowers. The negotiators were not able to reach an agreement until December 5 when START I came to an end as agreements and formal negotiations in Geneva were not resumed after the holidays for the festive season.
A Top U.S. diplomat had suggested earlier this month that the negotiations would be repeated on the 25th of January of this year. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last Friday that he expects Russia to reach an agreement with the US soon as the next round of negotiations would start in early February. It is noteworthy that any agreement reached must be ratified by the parliamentary assemblies of both countries.
