Among the only firm policy statements was a comittment to cut US nuclear weapons arsenals by a third and seek fresh talks with Russia to reduce stocks further.
In a report published on Monday, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) said that countries in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia – heavily invested in their arsenals from 2010 to 2014.
If that effort is successful, it would limit the size of arsenals Iran is able to build.
Chancellor of the Kurdish Region Security Council, Masrour Barzani, told the Guardian that the Peshmurga had been badly outgunned in battle by a terror group that had looted US-supplied heavy weapons from military arsenals abandoned by the Iraqi Army in mid-June.
Ritchie and the SDLP have countered that despite the largesse doled out to loyalist-backed community organisations, the criminality continues and the weapons remain in their secret arsenals.
The US and Russia had committed to destroying their arsenals by 2012 but have as yet failed to do so.
If Russia will not talk, Mr Obama may look at cutting American arsenals unilaterally.On climate change a passion of Mr Kerry's America places few hopes in the cumbersome UN process.
Furthermore, the government admits it has no idea how many more cells or bomb-making arsenals exist.
"We might accidentally launch a nuclear strike at the United States at any moment", a Russian colonel cheerfully told a newspaper last week.The Russian and American governments agreed in 1993 to reduce their nuclear arsenals: but ratification of the treaty, START-2, has been blocked by the Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament.
Before their meeting, at the 300th anniversary celebrations in Mr Putin's home city of St Petersburg, Russia's parliament ratified the treaty that pledges to reduce the two sides' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds over ten years (the treaty was signed last year, but the parliament had refused to ratify it during the Iraq war).
Reprints Related items Nigeria: A blacklist to bolster democracyFeb 15th 2007Militant cells and gang leaders are engaged in a variety of criminal enterprises, building up arsenals of weapons with the proceeds and sometimes working with corrupt army officials.
