Архив - August, 2007
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В Багдаде задержана делегация из Ирана
Вечером 28 августа в Багдаде была арестована делегация министерства энергетики Ирана, сообщает АР. По данным агентства, аресты были проведены американскими военнослужащими в отеле “Шератон”.
Военные окружили отель, а после провели обыски у его постояльцев. В итоге были задержаны около десяти человек.
Under the Cooperative Threat Reduction program authored by Nunn and Lugar, former Soviet nations have deactivated 6,982 nuclear warheads, destroyed 653 intercontinental ballistic missiles and chopped up 30 nuclear submarines.
But according to General Accounting Office reports and Defense Department officials, several CTR projects in Russia have been marked by regulatory headaches, unexpected costs and sometimes outright failures — at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Lugar, R-Ind., told The Associated Press on Tuesday that, given the level of mutual mistrust in the wake of the Cold War, it was remarkable the two former enemies had achieved so much.
The program was established at a time when Russia was weak, and the vulnerability of its nuclear, chemical and biological arsenals were “an emergency for the world,” he said.
Today, Russia is economically strong, politically stable — and increasingly determined to challenge the United States on diplomatic and military issues.
"We have at last begun a fundamental renewal of the basis of our cooperation," Rosatom director Nikolai Spasky was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency. "We expect this document to be signed this autumn."
Talks began in July between Moscow and Washington on trimming nuclear weapon arsenals ahead of the expiry of the landmark strategic weapons agreement START in 2009.
Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W.