Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Russia Walks Out of Nunn-Lugar Agreement – Paper

Moscow is to abandon participation in a decades-old program with the United States aimed at dismantling weapons of mass destruction
Moscow is to abandon participation in a decades-old program with the United States aimed at dismantling weapons of mass destruction


Moscow is to abandon participation in a decades-old program with the United States aimed at dismantling weapons of mass destruction, Russian daily Kommersant reported Wednesday.
The paper reported sources in the US State Department as saying Russia is no longer interested in the Nunn-Lugar program – also known as the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR) – which dates back to the early 1990's and helped decommission scores of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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