2010-03-02

Russia and the United States are "about to complete an agreement” in the negotiations for a nuclear disarmament treaty that will replace the START 1, that completed in 1991, announced Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday in Paris. "We are about to finalize an agreement on all issues" raised during the negotiations, said Russian President, who was undertaking a state visit to Paris, in a press conference with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy. "We're already working on the details of the text. I hope these negotiations to reach a conclusion in the near future," he added.
Disarmament treaty that Russian and U.S. delegation is negotiating for several months in Geneva will replace the START 1, completed in 1991 and expired on December 5, 2009. Since the beginning, Moscow and Washington said they are about to conclude an agreement but negotiations appear to train without the parties to clarify the reasons for procrastination. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his American counterpart Barack Obama defined in July the objective of limiting the number of nuclear warheads between 1500 and 1675 and the number of vectors able to carry them between 500 and 1100.