Obama signs nuclear treaty documents Wednesday
WASHINGTON. February 3. KAZINFORM US President Barack Obama pushed a key foreign policy goal a step closer to completion Wednesday with the signing of documents for a nuclear arms treaty with Russia; Kazinform refers to China Daily.
The treaty is a cornerstone of Obama's efforts to reset US relations with Russia.
The New START treaty, negotiated last year, limits each side to 1,550 strategic warheads, down from 2,200. The pact also re-establishes a monitoring system that ended in December 2009 with the expiration of an earlier arms deal.
Although Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other administration officials had argued strongly and repeatedly that the treaty was a key foreign policy goal of the president's, he signed the documents in the Oval Office in the presence of news photographers only.
Obama also did not issue a statement afterward; Kazinform cites China Daily.
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