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WASHINGTON — National Security Adviser James Jones will travel to Moscow this week for talks aimed at forging a new U.S.-Russian agreement on limiting their nuclear arsenals, the White House said Tuesday.
Jones, a retired U.S. general, is to meet with senior Russian officials for talks on an arms agreement that would succeed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires Dec. 5.
START was signed in 1991 just before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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