Medvedev signs `New START` treaty ratification
MOSCOW – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed ratification of a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, Radio Liberty reported.
The treaty, known as New START, limits each country to 1,550 strategic warheads, down from the current ceiling of 2,200, and also re-establishes a system for monitoring that ended in December 2009 with the expiration of a previous arms deal.
Presidents Barack Obama and Medvedev originally signed the documents in April.
The U.S. Senate ratified New START, shorthand for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, in December.
The pact will take effect when the ratification documents are exchanged by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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