Barack Obama, the President of the United States, will visit Iceland if Reykjavik is chosen as the location for the signing of a new nuclear weapons reduction treaty with Russia.
Kristjan Guy Burgess, assistant to Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, said in an interview with Visir.is that no decisions have yet been taken. The ministry has nonetheless been in contact with the Americal embassy about the possible trip.
The New York Times first reported the story this week that the new treaty might be signed in Reykjavik as a symbolic gesture following Ronald Regan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s historic meeting in Reykjavik in 1986. Geneva and Helsinki are also possible locations.
The existing pact between the two nations expires today, so preparation of a new treaty to further reduce the number of nuclear warheads on each side is considered urgent – although there is clearly no immediate danger of a war breaking out this weekend.
Source:icenews.is/i
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