February 05, 2011

Feb. 5, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov exchange the instruments of ratification for the New START nuclear arms control agreement during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany.

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