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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/obama-secures-russia-treaty-votes.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="US president Barack Obama has locked up enough Republican votes to ratify a new arms control treaty with Russia" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-obama-secures-russia-treaty-votes.jpg" alt="US president Barack Obama has locked up enough Republican votes to ratify a new arms control treaty with Russia"/></a></p>
<p>US President Barack Obama has locked up enough Republican votes to ratify a new arms control treaty with Russia that will cap the former Cold War foes&#8217; nuclear warheads and restart on-site weapons inspections.</p>
<p>Eleven US Senate Republicans joined Democrats in a 67-28 proxy vote to wind up the debate and hold a final tally. They broke ranks with the Senate&#8217;s top two Republicans and were poised to give President Obama a victory on his top foreign policy priority.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are on the brink of writing the next chapter in the 40-year history of wrestling with the threat of nuclear weapons,&#8221; Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry, a Democrat, said after the vote.</p>
<p>Ratification requires two-thirds of those voting in the senate and Democrats needed at least nine Republicans to overcome the opposition of minority leader Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl, the party&#8217;s pointman on the pact.</p>
<p>The Obama administration has made arms control negotiations the centrepiece of resetting its relationship with Russia and the treaty was critical to any rapprochement.</p>
<p>Momentum for the treaty accelerated earlier on Tuesday, the seventh day of debate, when Lamar Alexander, the number three Republican in the Senate, endorsed the accord.</p>
<p>The treaty will leave the US &#8220;with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to kingdom come&#8221;, Mr Alexander said on the senate floor, adding: &#8220;I&#8217;m convinced that Americans are safer and more secure with the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) treaty than without it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Obama has insisted the treaty is a national security imperative that will improve co-operation with Russia, an argument loudly echoed by the nation&#8217;s military and foreign policy leaders, former presidents George Bush senior and Bill Clinton and six Republican secretaries of state.</p>
<p>In a fresh appeal for ratification, defence secretary Robert Gates said the treaty would &#8220;strengthen our leadership role in stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons and provide the necessary flexibility to structure our strategic nuclear forces to best meet national security interests&#8221;.</p>
<p>Conservatives against the accord &#8211; among them possible Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty &#8211; argue that the treaty would restrict US options on a missile defence system to protect America and its allies and lacks sufficient procedures to verify Russia&#8217;s adherence.</p>
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