Russian official more optimistic on disarmament
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: March 8, 2009
Russia’s foreign minister called yesterday for an end to 10 years of failure in global-disarmament talks, trying to build on an upbeat meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Sergey Lavrov said that a stalemate at the Conference on Disarmament on issues from atomic bombs to space weapons can be broken now that the U.S. administration is “in favor of multilateral approaches to the maintenance of international security and disarmament.”
“The right moment has come today, for the first time after the end of the Cold War, for making real progress in resuming the global-disarmament process on a broad agenda,” Lavrov told the 65-nation body. …
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