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Obama Scores on Nuclear Proliferation at UN

Manages to get Russia and China to cooperate

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 24, 2009 9:11 AM CDT

(Newser) – Barack Obama scored two significant victories at the UN yesterday, cajoling Dmitry Medvedev into saying he would get behind tougher nuclear sanctions against Iran, and convincing both Russia and China to support a resolution strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Publicly the administration wouldn’t acknowledge... Read full story »

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