The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted in favour of a new strategic nuclear arms control treaty with Russia.
The Russian and US presidents had agreed that the ratification process would be simultaneous.
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The new START treaty specifies that the number of nuclear warheads be reduced to 1,550 on each side, while the number of deployed and non-deployed delivery vehicles must not exceed 800.
The new treaty was signed in April 2010 to replace the START 1 treaty that expired in December 2009, according to RIA Novosti.
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