[JURIST] The US and Russia have reached an agreement for the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty since 1991, official said Tuesday. The landmark treaty, which will replace the recently expired Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, will include significant reductions in both the number of deployed nuclear weapons as well as the number of nuclear-delivery systems. US Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller is in Paris to finalize the treaty after an agreement in principle was reached last week between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Advocacy groups including the Arms Control Association support the treaty for not only limiting the number of nuclear weapons, but for also providing methods for each side to moderator the other. The announcement comes as a number of world leaders gather for the 2010 Paris Summit in the hope of eliminating all nuclear weapons. The treaty could be ready for signing by the end of March.
\nBoth US and Russia officials have recently expressed desire to have the treaty in place prior to the upcoming Global Nuclear Security Summit in April, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May. Last month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the US were likely to resume in early February. Nuclear disarmament between the US and Russia, whose nuclear arsenals comprise 95 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, languished during the Bush administration. The treaty is considered a key part of easing tensions between the former Cold War rivals, which reached their worst point after the 2008 Georgia conflict. Last July, Obama and Medvedev agreed to tentative terms for the treaty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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