European Leaders Appeal to GOP Not to Block START

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The Republican Party is getting so crazy they’re starting to scare the whole world.

LISBON, Portugal (CNN) – Several nations once in the shadow of the Iron Curtain have a message for Republicans in Congress: Don’t stop New START before it starts.

Making their appeal on behalf of the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control treaty, the foreign ministers of Denmark, Norway, Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Lithuania crashed a Saturday press conference by a senior U.S. administration official about talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. While President Barack Obama has said ratifying the treaty should be a top priority for Congress, key Republican senators have said they don’t think a vote on it should be held before the new Congress convenes in January.

Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen said she spearheaded the media blitz to “make the Republican Party aware of how important this is.”

“If (New) START is not ratified, it will have a real impact on European security,” she said. “We hope we can sign it as soon as possible.”

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