Article: Russian official says progress made on new nuclear weapons accord with the United States

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Dateline: MOSCOW Fresh from talks with U.S. officials on a new nuclear weapons accord, a Russian diplomat said Saturday that Moscow is confident an agreement will be reached.

Both sides "succeeded in working two texts into one basically in one month," Deputy Foreign Minister Gregory Mamedov said, according to Interfax news agency. "Now there are two or three fundamental questions that need to be solved to prepare the agreement for signing."

The new accord is expected to slash the number of nuclear arsenals on each side to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads. Currently, both sides have about 6,000.

Moscow and Washington hope to have the new agreement ...

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