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Al Anwar, Lebanon


End Without Agreement

Translated By Pamela Maalouf

 21 November 2008

Edited by Brid­gette Blight


Lebanon - Al Anwar - Original Article (Arabic)

The United States and Russia just ended a week of talks without reaching any agreement on a new nuclear weapons treaty, declared the US mission in a statement.

The Cold War-era Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed between the US and the Soviet Union expires in December 2009.

The former Soviet republics of Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan also took part in the talks.

The US had submitted a proposal focused on limiting nuclear warheads, even though Russia wanted to open up the negotiations to limits on conventional forces and missile defense, said Washington's negotiator John Rood prior to the Geneva meeting.

The parties desire to point out that there was no treaty requirement to make a decision to extend the treaty at this meeting, the US statement said.

The United States of America, the republic of Belarus, the republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Ukraine will continue to consider the issue, it added.



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