The white house will not allow Congress to reduce nuclear cooperation with Russia
The white house on Wednesday called unacceptable Made to Congress a draft law, which reduces spending on technology, including cooperation with Russia on nuclear non-proliferation.
the draft law number 4923 discussed in the chamber of authorized Congress and Made a Republican Mike Simpson, still had not been considered at session of Congress. The draft law envisages the reduction of the financing process of budget expenditures by 34 billion dollars in the financial year 2015.
" The administration is fundamentally opposes language in the bill that would prevent apply appropriations for the nuclear weapons non-proliferation in terms of contracts or assistance of the Russian Federation ", - is reported in the appeal of the White house.
" cooperation with the Russian Federation on non-proliferation corresponds to the national interests of the USA and remains a key element in global efforts to fight the threat of nuclear terrorism ", - stressed in the U.S. administration.
the White house added that cooperation with Russia includes physical protection and reduction of internal threats to the vulnerable objects in the Russian Federation ". Before the U.S. because of differences over the situation in Ukraine has reduced cooperation with Russia in a number of key areas and imposed sanctions against the Russian capital, which the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation called counterproductive.
the decrease of the cost of interaction with Russia is not the only provision of the draft law, against which the objection Administration. Among the many provisions of the bill, which is not satisfied with the White house - cutting spending on renewable energy more than five hundred million dollars and the refusal to approve 5, 6-billion-dollar cost of protection of natural factors. In the nuclear sphere, the White house does not agree to cut the funding of closure on production of enriched uranium, as well as to reduce the program for recycling of unwanted armed forces of plutonium.