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Negotiations over new START treaty “look very good”

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Published 13 October, 2009, 22:28

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“I expect that we’ll have a deal on December 5, and this will be a major part of resetting US-Russia relations,” Joseph Cirincione of Ploughshares Foundation told RT, commenting on Hillary Clinton’s visit to Moscow.

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