Moscow: Lower house of Russian parliament has approved a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States.
The State Duma voted 350-96 for the new START treaty in its third and final hearing on Tuesday. The treaty will go to the upper house for final approval on Wednesday.
It is pertinent to mention here that the United States Senate approved the first nuclear arms agreement since the Cold War era last month.
“We have taken everything into account and are now taking a balanced — and most importantly responsible — decision,” the Duma’s foreign affairs committee chief Konstantin Kosachev told Interfax news agency.
On December 22, the US Senate attached non-binding amendments to Washington’s nuclear weapons reduction pact with Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticized the amendments, saying the Senate decision was “an arbitrary interpretation of the principles of international law.”
The US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev signed the new START in April 2010.
The US and Russia are said to together possess 95 percent of the entire world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons.
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