Obama, Medvedev to sign arms treaty Thursday

[steven johnson]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- President Obama landed in the Czech Republic on Thursday for a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to sign a major nuclear arms control agreement that reduces the nuclear stockpiles of both nations.

The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) builds on a previous agreement that expired in December.

Obama has called the treaty the "the most comprehensive arms control agreement in nearly two decades" and said it would cut the nuclear weapons of the United States and Russia by about a third.

After meeting with Medvedev and attending the signing ceremony in Prague, the Czech Republic capital, Obama will have dinner with heads of government from 11 countries -- Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/08/obama.russia.treaty/

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Okay...when is that today?

[zbdent]

2. Dmitry Medvedev ... Michael Medved ... Mikhail Medvedev?

hmm ...

[Ian David]

3. ...