GenevaLunch » START talks http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Geneva to host Start implementation meetingshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/03/geneva-to-host-start-implementation-meetings/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/03/geneva-to-host-start-implementation-meetings/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:58:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=53328 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – US President Barack Obama Wednesday 2 February signed the Start treaty with Russia, following approval by Congress. Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev initialled the treaty in Prague in April 2010, but it required US Senate ratification. The treaty will come into force 5 February when the two countries’ heads of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/03/geneva-to-host-start-implementation-meetings/feed/ 0 Nuclear arms pact with Russia (Chappatte cartoon)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/nuclear-arms-pact-with-russia-chappatte-cartoon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/nuclear-arms-pact-with-russia-chappatte-cartoon/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:05:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39433 GenevaLunch.com © Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/nuclear-arms-pact-with-russia-chappatte-cartoon/feed/ 0 US, Russia sign Start treaty: complete monitoring, lower costs (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/26/us-russia-sign-start-treaty-complete-monitoring-lower-costs/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/26/us-russia-sign-start-treaty-complete-monitoring-lower-costs/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:08:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39265 GenevaLunch.com Update 18:15  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet in Prague, Czech Republic Thursday 8 April to sign a new Start treaty, bringing to an end months-long negotiations to reduce strategic arms. The US Senate and Russian Parliament will need to ratify the treaty. The two presidents [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/26/us-russia-sign-start-treaty-complete-monitoring-lower-costs/feed/ 2 Hillary Clinton, Lavrov says US, Russia close to Start deal (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/19/hillary-clinton-says-us-russia-close-to-start-deal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/19/hillary-clinton-says-us-russia-close-to-start-deal/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:37:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38906 GenevaLunch.com Update 16:12  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State and Sergey Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, have said after meeting in Moscow that the two countries are very close to an agreement on the Start talks. Clinton was in Moscow for a meeting of the Middle East Quartet. The announcement by the pair [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/19/hillary-clinton-says-us-russia-close-to-start-deal/feed/ 0 Intermezzo and fugue in UN arms control and Start talkshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/19/intermezzo-and-fugue-in-un-arms-control-and-start-talks/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/19/intermezzo-and-fugue-in-un-arms-control-and-start-talks/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:51:24 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=35514 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The unfinished business of arms control is being taken up this week in two separate sets of talks in Geneva. Negotiations resume on the Russia-US Start treaty update and, separately, the UN’s Conference on Disarmament. Russia and the USA begin negotiations again 22 January to agree on a treaty to replace [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/19/intermezzo-and-fugue-in-un-arms-control-and-start-talks/feed/ 0 Geneva Start talks on pause, Lavrov, US State Dep’t upbeathttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/24/geneva-start-talks-on-pause-lavrov-us-state-dept-upbeat/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/24/geneva-start-talks-on-pause-lavrov-us-state-dept-upbeat/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:16:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=34394 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The nuclear arms reduction talks (Start) between the US and Russia will continue in January, the two countries have announced, with both sides saying they believe good progress has been made. “This is a much different environment that we exist in today,” PJ Crowley, US State Department spokesperson said in a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/24/geneva-start-talks-on-pause-lavrov-us-state-dept-upbeat/feed/ 1 Russian, US leaders agree Start talks progress madehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/13/russian-us-leaders-agree-start-talks-progress-made/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/13/russian-us-leaders-agree-start-talks-progress-made/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:03:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=33589 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Kremlin announced late Saturday 12 December that the Russian and US presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, discussed by phone Saturday the progress made in Geneva with talks to replace the Start I treaty. The Russian government had said Friday that it will be meeting with US this coming week, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/13/russian-us-leaders-agree-start-talks-progress-made/feed/ 1 Russia says close to agreement with US on new Start treatyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/04/russia-says-close-to-agreement-with-us-on-new-start-treaty/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/04/russia-says-close-to-agreement-with-us-on-new-start-treaty/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:33:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=33088 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Russia and the US are close to signing a new treaty to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), which expires Saturday 5 December, Russian news agency Ria Novosti reports late Friday, although it is unlikely the pact will be signed before the end of the year. The agency sites Russian [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/04/russia-says-close-to-agreement-with-us-on-new-start-treaty/feed/ 0 Trade and nukes talks wind down in Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/02/trade-and-nukes-on-separate-geneva-agenda-this-week/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/02/trade-and-nukes-on-separate-geneva-agenda-this-week/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:59:43 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=32873 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - In a highly publicized event, its opening marred by street violence, the Seventh Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has brought together government officials from 153 countries in Geneva for three days to discuss trade. On the other side of town, delegations of experts on foreign policy, military affairs [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/02/trade-and-nukes-on-separate-geneva-agenda-this-week/feed/ 0 Start treaty talks may take longer, Obama sayshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/16/start-treaty-talks-may-take-longer-obama-says/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/16/start-treaty-talks-may-take-longer-obama-says/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:42:00 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=31677 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – US President Barack Obama met Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev on the fringes of the Apec meeting in Singapore 14 November, to discuss the resumption of the Start talks on reducing both countries’ nuclear arsenals. Obama hailed the “excellent progress over the last few months”repors the Moscow Times. The Start talks resume [...]

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