Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Disarmament: Duma agrees to start contract with USA

The Russian Parliament has ratified the new treaty with the United States on nuclear disarmament. After the Duma, the Federation Council must now approve the agreement before it can enter into force. Moscow - law enforcement in the Duma: The Russian lower house has approved on Tuesday the new nuclear disarmament treaty with the United States.

In the third and final reading, the Parliament voted in Moscow with 350: 96 votes for the historic agreement. On Wednesday, still needs Russia's upper house, the Federation Council agree to them. Barack Obama and Kremlin leader Dmitry Medvedev had signed the new contract as early as last year in Prague.

It is evident only with the ratification by the two parliaments in force. The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (Start) is considered the most important agreement on nuclear disarmament of the two largest nuclear powers in 20 years. The U.S. Senate ratified the agreement before Christmas.

The Start treaty commits both countries, the number of deployed nuclear warheads within the next seven years to reduce each of 2200 to 1550th The carrier deployed systems should be limited to each 700th Russia has added to the document as the United States an additional explanation. Accordingly, Moscow wants to keep the contract only if the security of the country would not be threatened by new defense initiatives of the United States.

Because of earlier U.S. plans for a missile defense system in Central Europe, Russia had to pop the ratification of the 1993 START II Treaty was signed.

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