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"Russia and US can show way in arms cuts"

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Published 05 May, 2009, 02:18

Arms reduction would ease tensions around the world and “would give Moscow and Washington a solid base to do the same with other nuclear powers”, said Dr Walid Phares from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

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