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Sunday, July 01, 2012

U.S. Missile Defense Plans Hinder New Arms Cuts - Russia

Patriot PAC-3Russia will not start a new round of talks on further arms reductions until Washington changes its stance on the global deployment of U.S. missile defenses, especially in Europe, a senior Russian diplomat said.

U.S. officials have repeatedly urged Russia to continue discussions on arms cuts, including in conventional weapons, following the ratification of a new strategic arms reduction treaty (New START) in 2011.

“Our position is that in order to move forward [in nuclear and conventional arms cuts] we should implement the existing agreements [especially in the framework of the New START treaty],” Grigory Berdennikov, the Russian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Friday.

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