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MOSCOW -- U.S. and Russian negotiators were nearing completion of a new, nuclear-weapons treaty framework expected to be announced Monday, in what could prove to be the main achievement of a first summit between President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart.
In a sign of the difficulties ahead, lawyers on both sides are exploring how to handle existing nuclear weapons-monitoring agreements if no final deal on how to reduce nuclear weapons is reached by Dec.
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