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US, Russian Officials Hail START Treaty Extension

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The United States and Russia have agreed that their five-year
   extension of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as START, will
   enhance national and international security. The treaty limits the
   number of strategic nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic
   missiles each side can maintain.

   In separate speeches to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, U.S. and
   Russian permanent representatives to the conference expressed their
   satisfaction with the START agreement their countries completed on
   Tuesday.

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