THE TELEGRAPH: US President Barack Obama was in Prague to sign a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that slashes their two nations' atomic arsenals.
US President Barack Obama arrived in Prague on Thursday to sign a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that slashes their two nations' atomic arsenals.
The two heads of state signed a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expired last December, in the city where Obama called for a nuclear-free world in a keynote speech a year ago.
The treaty, which must be ratified by the US Senate and Russia's parliament to take effect, also imposes limits on the intercontinental ballistic missiles needed to deliver the warheads.
Obama will meet Medvedev at the Prague Castle - the seat of the Czech president - for a one-on-one before the signature stook [sic] place in the castle's richly adorned Spanish Hall around noon local time.
Thousands of police have been deployed to provide security in Prague during the US-Russian summit.
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