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Kremlin: Obama, Medvedev moving toward arms reduction deal (Roundup)
Mar 14, 2010, 4:04 GMT
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama spoke by telephone about progress in nuclear arms reduction talks, the Kremlin said late Saturday.
The Saturday call followed the resumption of strategic arms reduction talks between US and Russian delegations earlier in the week in Geneva.
Negotiators are working out the details of a joint understanding issued by the two presidents in July 2009, calling for cuts in nuclear stockpiles from an existing limit of 2,200 warheads to a range of 1,500 to 1,675 warheads.
Medvedev and Obama said the two sides could now begin talks to set a signing date for a new treaty, the Itar-Tass news agency reported, citing the Kremlin.
'The text has been agreed on, by and large,' Medvedev aide Sergei Prikhodko was quoted as saying.
The new treaty would replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expired in December.
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