WASHINGTON (December 22, 2010)— Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, NY, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, commended today’s ratification of the New START Treaty by the Senate.
“I welcome today’s ratification of the New START Treaty by the Senate,” Bishop Hubbard said. “It was important that senators joined across party lines to support this Treaty. The Holy See and our Bishops’ Conference have long supported efforts to promote nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation based on the Church’s moral concern for indiscriminate and disproportionate weapons.”
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been a steadfast supporter of strong and bipartisan action on the New START Treaty.
President Obama and President Medvedev of Russia signed a new Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty (START) on April 8, 2010. The New START Treaty reduces
deployed strategic warheads to 1,550, 30 percent below the existing ceiling;
limits both nations to no more than 700 delivery vehicles; and includes new
verification requirements that replace those that expired a year ago under the
prior START Treaty.
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Keywords: START, treaty, Senate, nuclear arms,
nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, International
Justice and Peace, President Obama, President Medvedev, Russia
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