Russia violated '91 START till end, U.S. report finds - Washington Times: "Russia continued to violate provisions of the 1991 START nuclear-arms treaty up until the agreement expired in December, raising new concerns that Moscow will violate the pending 'New START' treaty now being debated for ratification in the Senate.
The 2010 State Department report on arms-control compliance, which had been requested by Senate Republicans as part of the START ratification debate, also discloses new details showing Iran is secretly working on nuclear-missile warheads, and includes new information about nuclear programs by North Korea and Syria.
On Russia's START violations, the report stated: 'Notwithstanding the overall success of START implementation, a number of long-standing compliance issues that were raised in the START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (JCIC) remained unresolved when the Treaty expired on December 5, 2009.'
The unclassified report, 'Adherence to and Compliance With Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments,' is set to be released publicly Wednesday. A copy of the report was obtained by The Washington Times.
The report said that U.S. and Russian officials sought to resolve the compliance issues.
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