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And right at beginning of day one of the summit, some results to be announced. >> today ukraine announced a landmark decision to get rid of all of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium by the time of the next nuclear security summit in 2012. >> ukraine will eliminate its entire stockpile of highly enriched uranium. after press secretary robert gibbs made that announcement, president obama and the ukrainian president released a joint statement, quote, president yanukovych announced ukraine's decision to get rid of all of its stockpiles while the united states will provide necessary technical...

Ukraine intends to remove a substantial part of the stocks this year. ukraine will convert its civil nuclear research facilities to operate with low enriched uranium fuel. >> reporter: you may recall in 1994 that ukraine decided that it would go ahead and abandon, give up the nuclear weapons that it inherited from the soviet union when the soviet union collapsed. this is also considered a significant move forward. we've heard from canada also followed suit. stephen harper, the leader of canada saying they, too, would hand over the nuclear materials to the united states to secure by 2018. and t...

Landmark decision to get rid of all of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium by the time of the next nuclear security summit in 2012. >> ukraine will eliminate its entire stockpile of highly enriched uranium. after press secretary robert gibbs made that announcement, president obama and the ukrainian president released a joint statement, quote, president yanukovych announced ukraine's decision to ged rid of all of its stockpiles while the united states will provide necessary technical and financial assistant to support this effort. sound familiar? the united states will provide technical an...