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| Biden makes the case for ratifying START treaty with Russia |
| 2010-11-27 |
(KUNA) -- US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden made on Wednesday the case for ratifying in Congress the new START treaty with Russia affirming that President Barack B.O.Obama "has shown that missile defense and arms control can proceed hand-in-hand." "In September 2009, when President B.O. decided to alter his predecessor's plans for missile defense in Europe, some critics claimed that we had sacrificed our allies in the interest of the "reset" with Russia. Others thought that we would derail the reset by proceeding with the new plan. The skeptics were wrong on both counts," wrote Biden in an op-ed published in today's Wall Street Journal. "At NATO's summit in Lisbon last weekend, President B.O. united Europe behind our missile-defense plans and received strong support for the New Start Treaty that is currently before the Senate. In doing so, he proved that missile defense and arms control can proceed hand-in-hand," he added. Some Republican Senators, mainly Senator Jon Kyl who is negotiating with the White House, have hinted that the treaty could not pass before next year when the new Congress takes over and they have been asking for more allocation of money for modernizing US nuclear capabilities and to remove any Russian precondition on deploying US defense missile systems. Biden noted that "it is hard to remember how much relations between the United States and our European allies had frayed before this administration took office. U.S. leadership was viewed negatively by many foreign publics, and U.S. policies often met with opposition from our traditional partners." "The positive atmosphere in Lisbon and the substantial progress on priorities like missile defense, arms control and the Russia reset simply would not have been possible without nearly two years of intensive diplomacy," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
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| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-27 01:27 |