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START negotiators succeded in making progress--view
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Itar-Tass) - The United States believes that
negotiators at the Russo-American talks on a renewal of the START-1 Treaty
succeded in making a marked progress, Ambassador Richard Burt, a memebr of
the international Global Zero commission, and formerly the leader of the
American delegation at the talks with the Soviet Union on reductions in
strategic arms, told journalists here on Monday.
The Commission, consisting of prominent experts on disarmament and
national security, comes out in favour of complete elimination of nuclear
weapons. Ahead of the Russia-US summit, they have gathered in Washington
to present their four-stage plan that envisions the elimination of all
nuclear arms by the year 2030 (2030).
The Global Zero panel is part of the international initiative of the
same name. A campaign for full renunciation of nuclear weapons on a world
scale had been officially launched in 2008 at a founding conference in
Paris. The conference had drawn more than 100 eminent political, military,
business and public leaders.
Burt said Global Zero members had met with a high official of the US
administration who had informed them of the process of Russo-American
consultations on a renewal of the START Treaty. It has become known to
Itar-Tass that the high official in question was the chief American
negotiator -- Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller. The account
that Global Zero members received was quite a positive one. They gathered
the impression that the Russian and American sides were seeking a marked
progress at those talks. The Global Zero memebrs hope that that progress
will be reflected in a joint statement of the leaders of the two
countries, Burt emphasized.
Academician Yevgeny Velikhov, president of the Russian Kurchatov
Institute research center, has told Itar-Tass that an official of the
Barack Obama administration "reaffirmed the earnestness of the talks" on
strategic offensive arms and said that those talks would be followed up by
"negotiations on further significant cutbacks" in nuclear weapons.
The Obama administration has stated repeatedly that it aims to
achieve certain framework accords with Russia on strategic offensive arms
by the time the two presidents meet in Moscow from July 6 to 8.
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negotiators at the Russo-American talks on a renewal of the START-1 Treaty
succeded in making a marked progress, Ambassador Richard Burt, a memebr of
the international Global Zero commission, and formerly the leader of the
American delegation at the talks with the Soviet Union on reductions in
strategic arms, told journalists here on Monday.
The Commission, consisting of prominent experts on disarmament and
national security, comes out in favour of complete elimination of nuclear
weapons. Ahead of the Russia-US summit, they have gathered in Washington
to present their four-stage plan that envisions the elimination of all
nuclear arms by the year 2030 (2030).
The Global Zero panel is part of the international initiative of the
same name. A campaign for full renunciation of nuclear weapons on a world
scale had been officially launched in 2008 at a founding conference in
Paris. The conference had drawn more than 100 eminent political, military,
business and public leaders.
Burt said Global Zero members had met with a high official of the US
administration who had informed them of the process of Russo-American
consultations on a renewal of the START Treaty. It has become known to
Itar-Tass that the high official in question was the chief American
negotiator -- Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller. The account
that Global Zero members received was quite a positive one. They gathered
the impression that the Russian and American sides were seeking a marked
progress at those talks. The Global Zero memebrs hope that that progress
will be reflected in a joint statement of the leaders of the two
countries, Burt emphasized.
Academician Yevgeny Velikhov, president of the Russian Kurchatov
Institute research center, has told Itar-Tass that an official of the
Barack Obama administration "reaffirmed the earnestness of the talks" on
strategic offensive arms and said that those talks would be followed up by
"negotiations on further significant cutbacks" in nuclear weapons.
The Obama administration has stated repeatedly that it aims to
achieve certain framework accords with Russia on strategic offensive arms
by the time the two presidents meet in Moscow from July 6 to 8.
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