Chronology
5 permanent members of the UN Security Council meet for the first time in Paris and establish the P5 consultative process on nuclear disarmament
30.06.2011
Russia ratifies the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The treaty still has not entered into force.
30.06.2000
France stops highly enriched uranium production for nuclear weapons.
30.06.1996
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Blog entries: Российско-американские отношения
15.07.2018

Helsinki is a chance – not even for a breakthrough, but for some light at the end of the tunnel. It’s a chance to leave the ‘crisis management’ phase behind, a chance to start defusing the confrontation and mending fences. A chance to send a signal to the rest of the world. The world is waiting.