The 1992 Agreement between the United States of America and the Russian Federation Concerning the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of Weapons Proliferation (the Agreement) was instrumental for the release of funds pursuant to the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991. It was signed on 17 June 1992.[1][2]
Version 53 of the April 2022 Congressional Research Service guide to "Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements" mentions this Agreement with the annotation that it "Provides for U.S. assistance to Russia for the safe and secure transportation, storage, and destruction of nuclear, chemical, and other weapons."[3]
Under the terms of this Agreement "the United States was the donor and Russia was the recipient of U.S. financial and technical assistance, including money provided to help Russia implement the reductions specified in START I."[4]
This agreement was commonly known as the "Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Umbrella Agreement", and it expired on 17 June 2013.[5] This Agreement was replaced by the Framework Agreement on the Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Programme in the Russian Federation signed 14 June 2013.[6][5]
President George H. W. Bush and President Yeltsin signed the Agreement at their first summit on 16–17 June 1992 in Washington, D.C.[7] The Agreement was signed on 17 June 1992 for a seven-year term and extended in 1999 until 15 June 2006.[8]
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- ^ "Dmitry Medvedev signed the federal law On the Ratification of the Protocols to the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of Weapons Proliferation of 17 June 1992". kremlin.ru. 23 July 2008.
- ^ Butler, William Elliott (2002). The Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Text and Commentary. Cambridge University Press. p. 26.
- ^ Woolfe, Amy F.; Nitikin, Mary Beth D.; Kerr, Paul K. (25 April 2022). "Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements" (PDF). Congressional Research Service.
- ^ Pavlov, Alexander; Rybachenkov, Vladimir. "Looking Back: The U.S.-Russian Uranium Deal: Results and Lessons". Arms Control Association. Arms Control Today.
- ^ a b "A New Legal Framework for U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security". PRN: 2013/0772. U.S. Department of State. 19 June 2013.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of State.
- ^ "U.S. - Russia Collaboration On Nuclear Research". VOA News. 29 September 2013.
- ^ "Cooperative Threat Reduction Timeline". Russia Matters. Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Orlov, Vladimir; Timerbaev, Roland; Khlopkov, Anton (2002). "NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION IN U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES" (PDF). Raduga Publishers. PIR Center.