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Sunday, 28 March 2010 00:15

eba0939db5c358d42b5497ca4474.jpgA quarter have to get out: The U.S. and Russia seek to reduce the number of nuclear weapons by agreement. 2200 instead of nuclear long-range missiles, each country will in future have only 1500th Effect of this agreement is not there yet.

Long and repeatedly promised U.S. President Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Kremlin leader Dmitry Medvedev nuclear disarmament. Now, the representatives of the two largest nuclear powers in the world at one of their many phone calls recently succeeded to break through. In Prague, the place where Obama a year ago, his vision of a nuclear-free world, announced that he wants with Medvedev on 8 April the first major disarmament treaty signed this century.

The agreement aims to reduce that both Russia and the United States, the number of its long-range nuclear weapons from 2200 to 1500. The partners remain seven years after the ratification of time to implement the agreed goals. Nevertheless, both sides will remain even after the ability to wipe out each other. The agreement also provides for a slight reduction in operational support systems.

Political Moscow praised the agreement between the two "powerful men" of the world as the first concrete result of the boot in the Russian-American relations. Even Medvedev had called for final burying the legacy of the Cold War. The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle spoke of a "good day" for disarmament. He expects to drive like a signal to international disarmament efforts in other areas.

But what if the text of the successor agreement to the end of December the previous start-I treaty apparently stands, the agreement of Obama and Medvedev will become valid when the parliaments to ratify the document. In the U.S. Congress and in the State Duma has already been problems in the past. Whether the Republicans keep quiet in view of the U.S. congressional elections in November, here is questionable
 

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