Press: Presidents Obama, Medvedev likely to sign nuclear disarmament treaty in Prague

US president Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev might arrive in Prague next Friday, to sign a treaty on nuclear disarmament, according to news reports. A Czech TV correspondent in Moscow said on Friday that Russian TV crews received unofficial instructions from the Kremlin to apply for Czech visas and book live feeds from Prague for that day. While the Kremlin press office told Czech Radio that Helsinki and Geneva are also being considered as possible venues, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout said that the choice of Prague was unlikely.

The United States and Russia are finalizing a new nuclear disarmament treaty to replace the START II agreement from 1993 which will expire on Saturday. Negotiations about the new treaty started after President Barack Obama outlined his nuclear disarmament policy in a public speech delivered at Prague Castle in April this year.