Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...

"This result is... an award for a mission that the chairman of the Council of Ministers has historically realized in all his international political activities, starting from the summit in Pratica di Mare in May 2002 aimed at the overcoming of opposition between the two nuclear arsenals, which are potentially capable of destroying ten times the whole global population," a statement said.

The Russian and U.S. presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, signed on Thursday the new treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons to replace the START 1 treaty, which expired in December 2009.

"Starting from the G20 summit in London on April 1 last year, Chairman Berlusconi has personally made maximum efforts to improve relations between the U.S. administration and the Russian government," the Italian government"s statement said.

The strategic arms pact stipulates that the number of nuclear warheads is to be reduced to 1,550 on each side, while the number of

Pages: [1] 2