OREANDA-NEWS. September 07, 2009. Fifth Round of Russian-American Negotiations for New Agreement to Replace START Held in Geneva.

A fifth round of Russian-US negotiations on strategic offensive arms took place in Geneva on August 31-September 2.

Key provisions of a future agreement continued to be discussed. The sides began crafting specific articles of the treaty and agreed to transfer the work on them to working groups.

They arranged to continue negotiations at the end of September in Geneva.