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US arms control official to hold talks in Moscow
By ROBERT BURNS,Associated Press Writer AP - 1 hour 35 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The State Department said Friday it is sending its chief arms control official to Moscow to resume talks on U.S. plans to expand its missile defense system and on prospects for an agreement to a nuclear arms reduction deal that is due to expire next December.
John Rood, the acting under secretary of state for arms control and international security, will lead a U.S. delegation in talks next week that will be among the last on these subjects before the White House changes hands.
Advancing an arms control agenda with Moscow will be among challenges facing President-elect Barack Obama, who said during the campaign that his administration would work with Russia to take U.S. and Russian ballistic missiles off hair-trigger alert and seek dramatic reductions in both countries' nuclear arms.
U.S.-Russia relations were set back severely with Russia's five-day war against Georgia in August.
Among the items on next week's agenda, missile defense is perhaps the most hotly disputed, with little prospect of early agreement. The Russians oppose U.S. plans to place 10 missile interceptors at a base in Poland and a missile-tracking radar in the Czech Republic, arguing that they represent a strategic threat to Russia. The U.S. says they are needed to provide protection for Europe and the U.S. from a potential long-range missile launch from Iran.
The Russians also have declined to take up U.S. offers to make the missile defense project more transparent by arranging Czech and Polish government permission for Russian officers to inspect or monitor activity at the interceptor and radar sites. This is among topics Rood is expected to raise in Moscow.
Obama has said he supports missile defense while emphasizing it must not divert resources from other priorities "until we are positive the technology will protect the American people." He has not explicitly stated whether he would proceed with the Bush plan to extend the system into eastern Europe.
The Rood talks also will address stalled efforts to negotiate a follow-on deal to the 1991 START agreement under which the United States and Russia slashed their deployed nuclear forces. The treaty's verification rules are at issue because nuclear arms reductions under a 2002 treaty are governed by the 1991 accord, which expires in December 2009. The Russians want a formal verification regime to replace the 1991 deal, whereas the Bush administration argues for a simpler arrangement.
The State Department also announced Friday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to New York next week for meetings on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and for a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss with her counterparts ways to improve international efforts to counter Somali piracy.
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