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Untitled Document On the Course of The Ratification in the State Duma of the Russia-USA Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs September 13, 2002
A working meeting took place on September 12 in the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on International Affairs concerning the ratification of the Strategic Offensive Reductions (SOR) Treaty Between Russia and the United States of America.
Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Georgy Mamedov and Colonel-General Yuri Baluyevsky, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, underscored the importance of the SOR Treaty for ensuring the national security interests of Russia in the present not simple international situation, and noted its important place in the development of Russian-American strategic relations on the principles of partnership.
Hope also was expressed that ratification of the Treaty may be completed by the Russian Federal Assembly and the US Congress even by the end of the current year.
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