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Obama, Medvedev agree on START follow-up agreement (Extra)
Jul 6, 2009, 15:01 GMT
Moscow - US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev have reached basic agreement on a follow- up treaty to the START disarmament pact due to expire at the end of the year, White House officials said Monday.
They were speaking after an initial meeting between the two as Obama began his visit to Moscow.
Both sides would aim to reduce the number of nuclear warheads held by each to between 1,500 and 1,675, compared with the current START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) figures of up to 2,200.
The officials said there was agreement that the groundwork had to be laid in the coming months for a new treaty limiting nuclear arms and preventing their use in terrorist attacks, and the two sides would increase cooperation towards this.
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