Putin offers nuclear arsenal cuts

President Vladimir Putin said today he was willing to cut Russia’s nuclear arsenal to under 1,500 warheads as long as the process was ’’controlled’’ and the 1972 ABM treaty was preserved.

Speaking at a Kremlin news conference alongside French President Jacques Chirac, Putin also criticised the decision to deliver former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the UN war crimes tribunal, saying he had doubts the move would bring stability to the Balkans.