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US denies missile issue blocking new START treaty
The White House on Tuesday denied that differences with Russia on the US anti-missile shield in Europe were holding up an agreement on a new strategic nuclear weapons reduction treaty with Moscow. "The notion that this is in some way an impediment to what is going on with START is not true," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. Moscow has reportedly insisted that any new pact regulates both strategic offensive missiles and the anti-missile systems designed to thwart them, a linkage that the United States has never favored. Earlier, General Nikolai Makarov, chief of staff of the Russian armed forces said that Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) talks, which have dragged long past several deadlines, were stuck on the issue. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
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