US extends nuclear arms control treaty with Russia for 5 years
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Washington, Feb 4 : The US on Wednesday extended the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia for five years, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Extending the New START Treaty ensures we have verifiable limits on Russian ICBMs, SLBMs, and heavy bombers until February 5, 2026, said Blinken, adding that the extension makes the United States, US allies and partners, and the world safer , Xinhua news agency reported.
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New START does not concern latest R&D in US or Russia, new treaty needed â analyst
Negotiations will have to be conducted on these types of weapons and some fundamentally new treaty concluded, the exeprt said
MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) do not concern the newest weapons or those still in the development phase. In all likelihood separate talks will have to be conducted on them and a new agreement concluded, the Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of US and Canadian Studies, Valery Garbuzov, told TASS in an interview. In his opinion, time is not ripe for this yet.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the new United States president, Joe Biden, to crack down very hard on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, and his All Progressives Congress (APC).
Biden was sworn in as the 46th U.S. president on January 20, 2021, and almost immediately overturned a policy of the previous Donald Trump-led administration that prevented Nigerians from applying for immigrant visas.
The PDP praised his action in a statement released on Sunday, January 24, but urged him not to extend a friendly relationship towards the Buhari-led government.
The party s spokesperson,
Kola Ologbondiyan, said the 78-year-old should strongly consider imposing firm sanctions on leaders of the APC, and officials of the Buhari administration involved in acts of corruption, patronising of terrorists, and undermining Nigeria s democracy.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the new United States president, Joe Biden, to crack down very hard on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, and his All Progressives Congress (APC).
Biden was sworn in as the 46th U.S. president on January 20, 2021, and almost immediately overturned a policy of the previous Donald Trump-led administration that prevented Nigerians from applying for immigrant visas.
The PDP praised his action in a statement released on Sunday, January 24, but urged him not to extend a friendly relationship towards the Buhari-led government.
The party’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the 78-year-old should strongly consider imposing firm sanctions on leaders of the APC, and officials of the Buhari administration involved in acts of corruption, patronising of terrorists, and undermining Nigeria’s democracy.