WORLD : Little Progress Reported as Talks on Nuclear Forces Take a Break
U.S. and Soviet negotiators today ended the first talks on cutting long-range nuclear forces since President Bush took office, and a Soviet representative said they failed to bridge major disagreements.
Soviet chief envoy Yuri Nazarkin said the seven-week session made progress on some technical points. However, he added, “whatever progress has been made does not involve, to my regret, solutions to major outstanding issues.”
The 4 1/2-year-old negotiations, which include space-based missile defenses, will resume Sept. 25 after a Sept. 19-20 meeting between Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze in the United States.
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