NATO Strategy and Missile Defense
NATO's new Strategic Concept - November promises to be a watershed month for U.S.-NATO-Russia relations. The U.S. Senate may vote on the New START treaty after it returns Nov. 15 and the NATO Lisbon Summit on Nov. 19-20 will address both nuclear weapons and regional missile defense. After that, President Obama has said he wants to pursue an agreement with Russia covering strategic and tactical weapons, and NATO may launch a year-long review of its nuclear and missile defense policies. - The SI Committee for arms control calls both, the US Senate and the Russian Duma, to ratify the New Start Treaty as soon as possible to fulfil this important step in the disarmament process between the United States and Russia. (...)
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Moscow, 03.11.2010