Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) meets German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Barvikha outside Moscow, June 10, 2009. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Dmitry Astakhov (RUSSIA POLITICS)From Yahoo News/AP:
MOSCOW – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is willing to abandon nuclear weapons, if the United States and all other countries that have them do the same.
"If those who made the atomic bomb and used it are ready to abandon it — like, I hope, other nuclear powers officially and unofficially owning them — of course we will welcome and facilitate this process in all ways," Putin said, according to state-owned RIA Novosti news agency.
Putin spoke at a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who said earlier that the idea of scrapping nuclear arms altogether rather than limiting their proliferation was a real prospect.
"The goal of global zero is not a game for utopians, but will be taken up by the doyens of U.S. foreign policy as well as by German and Polish politicians," Steinmeier said.
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My Comment: I guess PM Putin has been sipping the vodka ..... nuclear disarmament is not going to happen in our lifetimes. But it should be the goal, and if Russia declares more cuts in their nuclear forces .... I may even start to believe Prime Minister Putin.