Putin offers Trump one-year extension to nuclear weapons treaty
- 23-Sep-2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord after it expires in February if the U.S. agreed to do the same. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good,” but she added that U.S. President […]
North Korea-Russia treaty comes into force, KCNA says
- 05-Dec-2024
The “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty” agreed by the leaders of North Korea and Russia in June came into force on Wednesday with the exchange of “ratification instruments” in Moscow, the North’s KCNA news agency reported on Thursday. The treaty was signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Pyongyang in June and a summit with […]
New Zealand Maori begin march on capital to protest Indigenous treaty bill
- 11-Nov-2024
Hundreds of people on Monday set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand’s capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country. Convoys of cars and marchers set off after a dawn ceremony at Cape Reinga, in the country’s far north, […]
Japan’s ‘anti-Russian course’ makes treaty talks impossible – TASS
- 03-Jan-2023
Japan’s “anti-Russian course” makes peace treaty talks impossible, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said in comments published by the state TASS news agency on Tuesday. Russia and Japan have not formally ended World War Two hostilities because of their standoff over islands, seized by the Soviet Union at the end of the war, just […]
Russian lawmakers approve extension of nuclear arms pact with U.S.
- 27-Jan-2021
Russia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a five-year extension of the New START nuclear arms control treaty with the United States,
Russia says leaving Open Skies military treaty
- 15-Jan-2021
The treaty was signed soon after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992 and came into force in 2002
UN announces new treaty for actors’ rights
- 29-Jan-2020
The treaty adopted in 2012, but coming into force now is hailed by Spanish screen star Javier Bardem.
New arms race undermining landmark nuclear control treaty: experts
- 30-Jun-2018
Fifty years after the US, Russia and other powers reached a landmark deal to halt the spread of atomic weapons, an arms race and shifting US alliances risk triggering a new scramble for the bomb.
UN set to adopt treaty banning nuclear weapons
- 07-Jul-2017
UNITED NATIONS: A global treaty banning nuclear weapons is set to be adopted at the United Nations on Friday despite opposition from the United States, Britain, France and other nuclear powers that boycotted negotiations. Supporters describe the treaty as a historic achievement but the nuclear-armed states have dismissed the ban as unrealistic, arguing it will […]
World's first anti-organ trafficking treaty opens
- 25-Mar-2015
STRASBOURG: Starting Wednesday nations will be able to sign what backers say is the first ever international treaty to take on human organ trafficking.