Europeans, Russia Urge US Senate to Ratify START Treaty

From left, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates are seen prior to participating in a NATO Russia Council meeting at a NATO summit in Lisbon
Europeans urged early ratification of a new nuclear defense treaty between the United States and Russia during a NATO summit in Lisbon amid announcements that Moscow would begin working with NATO on missile defense.

After receiving strong support from NATO partners for the START treaty, along with endorsement from top military figures and former administration officials, President Barack Obama told reporters in Lisbon there was no good reason why the U.S. Senate should not now ratify the treaty. "And my hope is we will do so. There's no other reason not to do it other than the fact that Washington has become a very partisan place and this is a classic area where we have to rise above partisanship," he said.
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