Russia, US agree number of ballistic missile launches

Russia and the United States have agreed a number of ballistic missile launches to exchange information on in 2015, Tass quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Friday.
The agreement was achieved after the ninth session of the bilateral consultative commission on the Russian-US Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that was held in Geneva on February 10-20.
"The Russian and US delegations continued to discuss practical aspects of the implementation of the treaty," the ministry said.
"In line with its provisions, they agreed and adopted a decision on the number of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles or submarine launched ballistic missiles on which they would exchange telemetric information in 2015."