The Sustainable Partnership with Russia Group, or SuPR Group, today launched a report with recommendations for the U.S. and Russia to continue working toward reductions in their nuclear stockpiles and to tackle top security challenges, including nuclear proliferation.
"American national security interests are best served by shedding the unnecessary weapons and concepts of the Cold War,” said Joe Cirincione, President of Ploughshares Fund, a participant and supporter of the Group.
The SuPR Group, a joint initiative of the Ploughshares Fund and the Center for Policy Studies in Russia [2] (PIR Center) is comprised of leading American and Russian defense and security experts.
In the report, the SuPR Group warns that failure to build on the success of New START could lead to a "cold pause" in U.S.-Russian relations, undermining the national security interests of both countries. To avoid such a "cold pause," SuPR Group members identified immediate next steps that the U.S. and Russia could take, including:
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Read the SuPR Group's Report on [3]Building on the Success of New START [3] |
About the SuPR Group
On April 9, 2010, the day after President Obama and his Russian counter-part Dmitri Medvedev, signed the New START treaty, Ploughshares Fund and the PIR Center [2], a leading Russian NGO in international security, founded the Sustainable Partnership with Russia (SuPR) Group. Comprised of leading experts [5] on U.S.-Russia relations, the purpose of the SuPR Group is to support current and future pathways of collaboration between both countries for nonproliferation and disarmament.
Members of the SuPR Group met for the first time in Moscow in June 2010 [6] to discuss this common vision for U.S. and Russian security. More than one hundred guests attended the event which was held at the National Hotel including experts, government officials and journalists.
SuPR Group members most recently met in Gstaad, Switzerland in February 2011. The third SuPR Group meeting will take place in Washington, DC in December 2011.
Members
Observers of the February Meeting
Links
[1] https://www.ploughshares.org/file/2392
[2] http://www.pircenter.org/index.php?id=1174
[3] http://www.ploughshares.org/sites/default/files/SuPR%20Group%20Letter%20&%20Recommendations.pdf
[4] http://www.ploughshares.org/sites/default/files/SuPR Group Letter & Recommendations.pdf
[5] http://www.pircenter.org/index.php?id=3805
[6] http://ploughshares.org/events/Common-Vision-of-Security
[7] http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us/joseph-cirincione
[8] http://www.iiss.org/about-us/staffexpertise/list-experts-by-name/michael-elleman/
[9] http://hoffman.foreignpolicy.com/about_david_e_hoffman
[10] http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us/david-holloway
[11] http://www.brookings.edu/experts/pifers.aspx
[12] http://csis.org/expert/sharon-squassoni
[13] http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.928091/