Clinton rejects calls to cut nuclear arms

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Clinton rejects calls to cut nuclear arms

Friday 23 April 2010

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has rejected calls to remove hundreds of US nuclear missiles from Europe at a Nato meeting in Estonia.

During a working dinner in Tallinn, Ms Clinton insisted that any reductions should be linked to a negotiated nuclear pullback by Russia, which has nuclear weapons in range of European targets.

This did not go down well with Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and Norway, which have all pressed Washington to withdraw the hundreds of weapons of mass destruction that it has deployed on the continent.

In a joint letter, the five countries observed that the US deployment conflicts with the spirit of US President Barack Obama's lauded campaign against nuclear proliferation.

But far from responding to concerns that the US military presence is a cold war relic that has no place in the European Union, Ms Clinton said that the Obama administration wanted European Nato members to accept "missile defence" as a core mission of the military alliance.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/89547

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