federation have persuaded the leadership that what we are proposing and particularly down the line because this is the phased approach, this is a decade long program with some new systems coming on board by 2020 and the so-called s m three pitches quite advanced from what we have now, we don't have that now. but the russians extrapolate to keep the what they think we're going to have, believe it will pose a threat, and we have been engaged with them in the missile defense cooperation talks led by the secretary of state dillinger sure that used to represent the national labs here in the county she's been negotiating for quite some time since the spring of 2009, until now and the haven't reached agreement and in fact unfortunately the president medvedev made a statement not long ago saying the haven't borne fruit, but they're very concerned and feel if there is an agreement to share the that can't share operational capabilities which is a bit of a problem for us. that it could lead them to -- the russians themselves could consider withdrawing from the treaty of the just fine with obama last

senator, by the russian state and federal council and get it into force. but then ended kind of drop out of sight to everybody inside the u.s. government, so this is a very welcome opportunity today and a bit of a celebration as far as i am concerned about the first birthday of the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. i am also delighted to be here with mike elliott and ted warner and again as already mentioned by steve, they were my very close partners, leadership team of the delegation on the u.s. side of the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty negotiations in geneva in 2009 and 2010. so we are really i would say close-knit triumphant and we have many other people from the interagency involved as well and it was a super team on our side as the russian side, the russian side had an informal team of top flight diplomats and experts involved in the negotiation and the treaty also the interagency group on their side. i wanted to start by talking a little bit about the implementation of the treaty, what has happened in very general terms. mike elliott is calling to dig down deep and giv

the same obligations are on the shoulders of the united states, as are the russian federation. the bear that in mind as we talk to the treaty that these obligations are totally in. the inspection process i will say idea that pat and going for me to play. i would say in general the implementation has been conducted in a very businesslike and pragmatic manner. this was the attitude we had the negotiating table in geneva and has definitely carried forward into the implementation process both on the russian side and the u.s. side we have been keeping focus on problem-solving, being pragmatic we go about it and it really again is quite suited to the post-cold war era we are now in, we we had really some serious security issues you must address some of sides in continue to address regarding forces but we go about it in a pragmatic and problem-solving kind of way. so, throughout this first year of the treaty are in a post from five to february's text and attribute is entered into force on february 5 of 2011 when minister lovecraft and secretary clinton exchanged the paper to bring the

the data exchanges are providing as i would say much more detailed picture of the russian federation strategic nuclear arsenal than we have had in the past again vice versa is true as well. the russians are getting a closer look at our strategic nuclear forces than in the past, and of course both of us back of our exchanges of information and inspections with our own national technical modification with life and other kind of monetary platforms that we use to relieve back our goods on the ground as senator lugar likes to say and also the other kinds of information exchanges that take place under the treaty. ted is going to want dhaka bit more about this because he just spent the last couple of weeks in geneva for the bilateral consultant commission of the so-called implementation commission of the treaty which has now met for its third time but we have some good news out of the meeting. remember to elementary was one of the tough issues during the course of the negotiation and there were some issues that were left hanging at the end of the negotiation that needed to be wrapped up and

the russian federation then gets to go to a selection of three of those navy bombers and, in fact, confirm there are no weapons on those particular bombers through that process. the same procedures in terms of ambiguities is carried through, and the same process taking you back to the point of entry and returning to their home country. in reverse, the u.s. military which populates inspection teams with the defense threat reduction agency goes through a reciprocal process with the russian federation in which we go to each one of their facilities and go through basically the same process. and with that, steve, i will turn it back to you. >> ted, do you want to operate couple comments on the bilateral commission, but also as rose mentioned, the president described new s.t.a.r.t. as a stepping talk about another step coming. would you like to tell us about what the u.s. government is doing with regards to what policy is starting? >> thanks, steve. i welcome the opportunity to see my colleagues again. i see mike in the pentagon perhaps all too often. so that's not so unusual, but rose and i, ou

we welcome in this regard the recent initiative of the russian federation to sponsor and all syrian dialogue in moscow to find a solution to this crisis. thank you, mr. president. >> i thank you for your statement. i give the floor to members of f the counsel, sec -- secretary of state of the united states of america. >> thank you very much. thank you, prime minister and secretary general for the thorough briefing of the the arab league has demonstrated important leadership in this crisis, and for many months, the people of the region and the world watched in horror as the assad regime executed its own citizens, civilians gunned down in the streets, women and children tortured and killed, and no one is safe, not even officials of the syrian-arab red crescent. according to u.n. estimates, more than 5,400 -- [no audio] resist the regimes brutality, violence is increasingly likely to spiral out of control. already, the challenges ahead for the serian people are -- syrian people are daunting. a crumbling economy, rising sectarian tensions, a caldron of instability in the heart of the middle east

give it up for a presidential candidate of the russian federation vladimir putin. [applause] [applause] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: dear friends, i greet you all. everybody who has come here today to the stadium here in moscow and those who are outside this stadium despite inclement weather a great number of people have gathered here it dozens of thousands. it is symbolic. i would like -- i would like to call your attention to the fact that different people have gathered here, different as far as age, as far as their ethnic background, as far as their religion. as far as their gender, men and women, it is symbolic that we have gathered here today on february the 23rd, which is the day of the defender of the fatherland. because we are today indeed defenders of our fatherland. that's who we are. we have come here today -- we have come here today in order to say that we love russia. in order to say it in a way that this whole country will hear us. and i will ask you -- and i ask you to speak with just one word, to just answer for the simple word yes. my

by all accounts, but everything we seem to know, the senior analyst of the russian federation have persuaded their leadership that what we are proposing, and particularly what we're proposing down to like them because this is a phase approach, this is a decade-long program with some new systems coming on board by 2020, probably see a lot of this from my colleagues. in the so-called sm3 module to which is quite an advanced interceptor from what we have now but we don't have that now. that the russians extracting to the capabilities they think we're going to have believe it will pose a threat to their deterrence. and we've been engaged with them in missile defense cooperation talks led by undersecretary of state who used to represent national labs, lawrence livermore. she's been negotiating for quite some time since the spring of 2009 until now. and they haven't reached agreement. and effect and for showing president medvedev said they have not brought for. the russians are very concerned and they feel that if it is not an agreement to share data and more operations, a bit of a problem for us.