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U.S. and Russia agree on deal for cuts to nuclear weapons
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
Tags: nuclear arms, Israel news 

Negotiators from the United States and Russia have agreed the text of an outline deal cutting nuclear arms for their presidents to review and announce later on Monday, a U.S. official said.

U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, are likely to announce a so-called framework agreement on Monday evening at the Kremlin, giving detailed instructions to negotiators to produce a treaty ready for signing by December.

"There is text for them to review", the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He emphasised that the agreement would only become final once the two leaders had reviewed it. "It is not done until it is done," he added.
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In December an existing pact known as START-1 regulating the number of long-range nuclear weapons expires.

Medvedev told the Italian media on Sunday that Russia-U.S. ties have begun to revive of late, particularly with regard to a treaty on strategic offensive weapons.

"At the moment I think we are all moderately optimistic, both the Russian side and the American side," he said. "When I talked to [Obama] on the phone a few days ago, we discussed the agenda and the process of preparing a new treaty concerning strategic offensive weapons. And that is in a way the most important item on the agenda."

|But in addition to what we call disarmament issues, we naturally have an extensive agenda that reflects other concerns," he added. "These involve interregional conflicts, efforts to overcome the international financial crisis, local conflicts and finally bilateral relations."

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