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Russian parliament revokes START treaty ratification
Published: 04 November, 2010, 10:42
Edited: 09 November, 2010, 18:18
TAGS: Arms, Nuclear, Russia, Politics, USA
Russia's State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee has repealed an earlier decision to ratify the latest Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the US after the American Senate made around 30 amendments to the original version.
Among them are clauses stipulating that the treaty does not cover deployment of a US missile defense system, or ballistic missiles with conventional warheads.
“The presidents of Russia and of the US have set the task of synchronizing all procedures concerning the new START treaty. Nevertheless, now we have to speak not only about synchronizing efforts to keep up with the deadlines, but of synchronizing the contents as well,” said Konstantin Kosachev, head of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.
Presidents Obama and Medvedev signed the deal in Prague in April. The START deal would see both countries' nuclear arsenals slashed by a third, and the US Secretary of State is calling for the Senate to vote quickly on the treaty.
The US president hopes the Senate will approve the historic nuclear arms reduction deal with Moscow by the end of the year.
”We have negotiated with the Russians significant reductions in our nuclear arms,” President Obama told journalists on Thursday. “This is something that traditionally has received strong bipartisan support. This is not a traditionally Democratic or Republican issue, but rather an issue of American national security, and I am hopeful we can get that done and send the strong signal to Russia that we are serious about reducing nuclear arsenals.”
Mikhail Margelov from the Russian Federation Council hopes the current “reset” in the two countries’ relations will not be affected by the latest developments.
“There's nothing wrong with our relations with the Republican Party,” he said. “All the criticism of the Republicans against [the] START re-agreement, for example, was criticism not against Russian position or Russia’s views against START treaty, but against the position of the democratic government during the negotiations and against Obama. I think ‘reset’ is not in danger.”
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Sierra Nevada Firt, my response to this false claim has not posted. Now, why does defense of Russian security entails that one wants Americans be killed! Do you think Russia needs to defend its borders and vulnerable flanks? Missile Shields existential threat to Russia’s security and that is why Russia is concerned—defense of Russia is good for global security--
If the Americans make changes before they sign the treaty then they are not really signing the treaty, they are signing something else. The Russians could then take this new amended treaty and decide if they want to ratify it... or amend it further perhaps. Maybe their amendments should include that the US has to pay Russia 50 billion dollars a year for no reason at all... forever. Do you think the US will stick to this treaty they will have already signed or perhaps they might want to repeal their acceptance of such nonsense? Of course if the US Amends the agreement then the agreement is already null and void because they did not sign the same agreement and are only bound by the agreement they have signed... so when the US starts building an ABM system in Europe then Russia can start mass producing strategic nuclear weapons above and beyond those agreed in the current Treaty being signed.
I was almost sure something like this will happend with START in Usa.I believe Russia was even more aware that this will happend so they did wait and with right reasons and good excuse, they will reject in Duma any change to START, I believe....When two Presidents agree on something,it shall be done but what expect from Usa Senate or from Usa , a state who agree more than 200 peace accords with "indians" and brocked every each of them ? In reality START will change nothing.Forced "Honest Reset"from US bring START on Russian table and it will bring many other things. From Russian point, nothing will change...whatever they agree or sign with Us or Nato,they are and they will be always ready to bury them in no time many times over, becouse Russia is, as no other state aware to the bone of their real nature...No ABM or anything what will come will change that.By the way a Stars Wars was a Russian idea to...Moskow was only sity in the world who was from 1968 complete proctected from any kind of air attack so everyone can imagine how things did progres from there...Also, for 25 years non-stop Russians flight in space almost every second or third day.For the same period all world(US,Europeans,China)got beetwen 7 to 11 flight a year(Russia about 100 to 137 per year-known in public and unknown-who knows)...Every time flight cost Russia(and others) 1,5 to 3 billions dollars...what I know from millitary(some of them even from 1980, from Usa) books they did no carry cochoroches and plants as others in space!Russia is at least 20 years ahead by millitary various weapons but they always try to hide and play down what they got-as always in the past. So, PR 101 rest reasured, Russia is here to stay forever and time works for them-a ONLY SUPERPOWER BY TRUE HISTORY FACTS and as such a bone in throat to the former slave masters... Thank you.