U.S. Congress approve new US-Russian nuclear disarmament treaty
Baku, December 23 (AZERTAC). The U.S. Senate voted to pass the United States and Russia 22 new “Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty” - “Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty,” the tug of war after a long and difficult lobbying, the treaty was finally in the new Congress early next year oath before the adoption, to avoid the fate of being rejected. The day the U.S. Senate by 71 votes in favour and 26 votes against the vote approved the new US-Russian nuclear disarmament treaty, in which the number of votes Obama administration than previously expected to be more. Under the U.S. Constitution, the President signed the international treaty must be ratified by the Senate two-thirds majority, meaning 67 votes to take effect. In addition to the Democratic Party the day of the 58 seats in the Senate voted in favour, there are 13 Republican senators also voted in favour.
United States and Russia signed in 1991, “Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty” has been expired last December. After months of negotiations, the two countries in April this year in the Czech capital, Prague, signed a new “Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty”, to replace the old treaty. The new treaty, the two countries seven years the number of deployed strategic nuclear delivery vehicles will be reduced to 700 the following, each can be deployed nuclear warheads will be reduced to 1550, nearly one-third cuts. Even so, the number of nuclear warheads of both countries will account for more than 90% of the world total.
A new nuclear disarmament treaty was signed, the treaty was adopted in the U.S. Senate a more optimistic outlook. Analysts believe that the new US-Russia disarmament treaty on global nuclear disarmament process, US-Russian relations and the international image of Obama have a major impact. New US-Russia disarmament treaty is expected to be smooth approval by the Russian Duma, it appears that Barack Obama can rest assured for Christmas.
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