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Duma Speaker: START Ratification Not Planned for Spring Parliamentary Session

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Duma Speaker: START Ratification Not Planned for Spring Parliamentary Session


17.06.2010

The speaker of Russia’s State Duma, Boris Gryzlov, confirms that the question of ratifying the new START is not on the agenda of the spring session, ITAR-TASS reports.

“We continue the procedures, and as far as the ratification is concerned, we shall try to make it synchronically,” he said. “First of all, over the spring session this matter will not be on the agenda of a plenary session.”

“I do not think we shall have to organise an additional plenary session,” he said. “So this will be a question for the autumn session’s consideration.”

The State Duma’s relevant committees, on defence and international affairs, will start a discussion of the treaty on Thursday. The US Congress will follow suit on Thursday, too. The treaty was signed by presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama in Prague on April 8. The two leaders agreed to synchronise the process of its ratification.

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