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Lame Duck Senate approves new 'START' pact
[Al Jazeera] The United States Senate has approved a new deal with Russia on capping nuclear arms, marking a major foreign policy victory for Barack B.O.Obama, the US president. Senators voted 71-26 on Wednesday in favour of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, one of Obama's top priorities since taking office in January 2009. Thirteen Republicans broke with their top two leaders and joined 56 members of the president's Democratic Party and two independents in providing the necessary two-thirds vote to approve the deal. The treaty, which still must be approved by Russia, aims to rein in Russian and US nuclear arsenals by capping nuclear weapons and re-starting inspections. It replaces an expired accord. "With this treaty, we send a message to Iran and North Korea that the international community remains united to restrain the nuclear ambitions of countries that operate outside the law," senator John I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry, ... the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the empty wingtips of Joe Biden... who led the debate on the deal, said. Posted by: Fred 2010-12-23 |
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