Last week’s signing of a new nuclear arms treaty governing nuclear armsbetween Russia and the USA has been welcomed by the Norwegian government.
The new agreement between Russia and the United States was signed in Prague by respective Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama.
“The signing of a new nuclear arms treaty between the USA and Russia is an important step on the road towards a world without nuclear arms,” said the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg.
The leaders of the two nations finally signed-off on the New Start Treaty, which represents the first real move towards disarmament across Russia and the USA for almost 19 years.
”It is gratifying that the USA and Russia have agreed to reduce the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads. I see this treaty as the initiation of a broader disarmament process which will include all types of nuclear arms, and which in the end will lead to a world without atomic weapons,” said Stoltenberg.
The Norwegian Prime Minister also claimed that the treaty was an important signal ahead of the next Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, as reported in The Norway Post.
Next week, Prime Minister Stoltenberg will participate in the Washington-based Global Nuclear Summit, where the focus will be on the prevention of nuclear terrorism and nuclear security.
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