Obama hopes US Senate will ratify START by November
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President Barack Obama said he hoped the US Senate would ratify a major arms reduction treaty with Russia by November, after the Senate majority leader expressed doubt that it could happen before 2011.
"I'd like to see it happen before the election," the Democratic president said, referring to US congressional elections due on Nov. 2. He was speaking in an interview with Russia's state-run Rossiya television channel broadcast on Saturday. (Reuters)
