As leadersfromnearly50countries meet inWashington for a major summit onNuclearSecurity, Ukraine haspledged to eliminate stockpile of highly enriched uranium by 2012.
We are going to set up more concrete benchmarks, and as a result of the Seoul summit, we will be able to reduce and eliminate about 20, 000 nuclear weapons.
And to prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons, we came together at our Nuclear Security Summit, where our two nations made numerous commitments, including agreeing to eliminate enough plutonium for about 17, 000 nuclear weapons.