Clinton urges Russia to “push hard” for arms treaty | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged her Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov to speed up work on the new arms reduction treaty, a State Department spokesman said.
The two diplomats have held a 15-minute phone conversation on Tuesday to discuss a new deal to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 1), the cornerstone of post-Cold War arms control agreement which expired on December 5, 2009.
‘She [Clinton] emphasized to the foreign minister that our negotiators are close to reaching an agreement and encouraged Russia to continue to move ahead, push hard so we can reach an agreement in the next couple of weeks,’ Philip Crowley told a media briefing late on Tuesday.”