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US-Russia reset on 'pause': US general

April 11, 2013 18:30
A "reset" in US-Russia relations is now on pause and Moscow likely will be "the primary actor of regional concern," the American general nominated to take over as NATO commander said Thursday. General Philip Breedlove, President Barack Obama's pick to serve as NATO's next supreme allied commander, described Russia as an "aspirational superpower" and told lawmakers an attempt to forge more cooperative ties with Moscow had faltered for the moment. "I've described the reset as sort of, on pause," Breedlove told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Russia keen for talks on missile defense: Pentagon

March 25, 2013 19:00
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called his US counterpart Chuck Hagel on Monday and expressed a desire to hold high-level talks on missile defense, the Pentagon announced. US Secretary of Defense Hagel said the desire to maintain discussions on the issue at deputy minister level were "an important part of US-Russian relations." Shoigu's call to Hagel follows a US decision to abandon the final phase of a planned anti-missile system in Europe designed to combat Iran's ballistic missile threat but deeply unpopular in Moscow.

Obama vows to work with Russia to reduce nuclear arsenals

February 13, 2013 00:46
US President Barack Obama vowed in his annual State of the Union address Tuesday to work with the Kremlin to reduce both Russia and America's stockpiles of nuclear weapons. "We will engage Russia to seek further reductions in our nuclear arsenals and continue leading the global effort to secure nuclear materials that could fall into the wrong hands," Obama promised.

Obama to propose deep nuclear arms cuts: report

February 11, 2013 19:15
US President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address on Tuesday to call for dramatic cuts in nuclear arsenals around the world, The New York Times has reported. Quoting unnamed administration officials, the newspaper said late Sunday that in recent months Obama had secured agreement with the US military that its nuclear force can be cut by roughly a third. In his speech, Obama is unlikely to discuss specific numbers but White House officials are looking at a cut that would take the arsenal of deployed weapons to just above 1,000, the report said.

Obama to propose deep nuclear arms cuts: report

February 11, 2013 00:31
US President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address on Tuesday to call for dramatic cuts in nuclear arsenals around the world, The New York Times reported late Sunday. Quoting unnamed administration officials, the newspaper said that in recent months Obama had secured agreement with the US military that its nuclear force can be cut by roughly a third. In his speech Obama is unlikely to discuss specific numbers but White House officials are looking at a cut that would take the arsenal of deployed weapons to just above 1,000, the report said.
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