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Russia-U.S. nuclear treaty ready soon: Kremlin

MOSCOW -- U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev have agreed that Washington and Moscow are close to reaching agreement on a new nuclear disarmament treaty, the Kremlin said.

U.S. and Russian negotiators have been meeting in Geneva to discuss a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a landmark Cold War-era nuclear arms pact which expired in December.

In a telephone conversation on Saturday, both presidents “expressed satisfaction with the highly advanced state of preparations” for the new accord, the Kremlin said in a statement.

During their talks, “it was stressed that it is already possible to set firm dates to submit the draft agreement to the heads of state for their signature,” it said, without giving a specific timeframe.

Medvedev and Obama “agreed to give additional instructions to the delegations” with a view to finalising a deal, it said.

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