Thursday, April 8, 2010
Obama in Prague to sign new nuclear treaty with Medvedev
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PRAGUE: US President Barack Obama arrived in Prague on Thursday to sign a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an airport spokeswoman said. "They have just landed. The time was 0915 (0715 GMT)," Prague airport spokeswoman Michaela Lagronova told AFP. Medvedev arrived in Prague on Wednesday evening.
The two heads of state will sign a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expired last December, in the city where Obama called for a nuclear-free world in a keynote speech a year ago.
The so-called "new START" cuts the number of deployed warheads by 30 percent from the levels set in the last major US-Russian disarmament treaty in 2002, specifying limits of 1,550 nuclear warheads for each of the two countries.
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