WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is welcoming an agreement by the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament to open the way to negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty. He says the decision signals a commitment to work together on what he calls a fundamental challenge. He's also committing to work with other governments to help complete the treaty quickly. Obama says such a treaty is an essential element of his vision for a world free of nuclear weapons. The conference has been stalemated since it wrote the nuclear test ban treaty in 1996.
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