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SOCHI, October 19. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin stated that Russia showed unprecedented openness in the nuclear sphere, not having met the reciprocity from the United States.
Speaking at the meeting of the International discussion club “Valdai”, the President recalled how to perform the Russian-American agreements in the nuclear field. “In the 1990-ies was signed several important bilateral agreements. The first, on 17 June 1992 and the second on 18 February 1993, the program of the HEU is highly enriched uranium were transferred to low-enriched uranium. Projects under the first agreement concerned the modernization of the systems of control, accounting and physical protection of nuclear materials, dismantling and disposing of submarines and radioisotope thermoelectric generators”, – said Putin.