Flashback: Senator Obama Pushed Bill That Helped

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Dick Lugar in 2005 just seven months DON'T MISS after he became a senator, touring surplus weapons stockpiles Most of the small arms and ammunition were left over when Soviets Sizzling Emily Ratajkowski shows off withdrew from Eastern bloc nations, and later dumped in Ukraine her peachy posterior and perky assets as she The two senators secured U.S. funding to help destroy the weapons strips down to instead of leaving them intact NOTHING in yet another saucy snap Ukraine exported more than 700,000 small arms in 2004-2007, including 101,000 each to Libya and the UK, and 260,000 to the U.S. 'I have body But most of the ammunition stockpiles – crucial for keeping a standing dysmorphia': Lauren Goodger reveals self- army battle-ready – were destroyed image battle as she Ukraine is in a staring match with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who admits to feeling 'revolting' and has designs on recapturing portions of the former Soviet nation 'unhappy' with her looks By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR It's getting hot in here! Ola Jordan shows off PUBLISHED: 06:58 GMT, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 07:06 GMT, 5 March 2014 her dancer's body in tiny red bikini as she hits the jungle shower 56 with Sam Quek and View comments Scarlett Moffatt on I'm a Celeb As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama won $48 million in federal funding to help Ukraine destroy Chest amazing! Amber thousands of tons of guns and ammunition – weapons which are now unavailable to the Ukrainian Heard wears lacy army as it faces down Russian President Vladimir Putin during his invasion of Crimea. cutaway gown as she makes rare public In August 2005, just seven months after his swearing-in, Obama traveled to Donetsk in Eastern appearance at Glamour Ukraine with then-Indiana Republican Senator Dick Lugar, touring a conventional weapons site. Women Of The Year Awards The two met in Kiev with President Victor Yushchenko, making the case that an existing Cooperative Threat Reduction Program covering the destruction of nuclear weapons should be expanded to BBC producers cut include artillery, small arms, anti-aircraft weapons, and conventional ammunition of all kinds. dramatic moment After a stopover in London, the senators returned to Washington and declared that the U.S. should Beverley Knight devote funds to speed up the destruction of more than 400,000 small arms, 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles, COLLAPSES during Children In Need Rocks and more than 15,000 tons of ammunition. performance SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Midway through song From Kate Moss's denim jacket to Taylor Swift's checked crombie and Cara's parka - 'IT' coats you need to know about right NOW SPONSORED 'I was really ugly and I wasn't like the other kids': Scarlett Moffatt reveals she was bullied mercilessly at school because of her looks Look at her now! 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Iskra Obama, then a junior senator on the Foreign Relations Committee, worked with then- Lawrence shows off her incredible figure as she Republican committee chair Dick Lugar (L) to oversee destruction of Soviet-era war materiel squeezes into skintight through an agreement that Lugar had brokered years earlier, covering only nuclear weapons silver dress at Glamour Women Of The Year Awards Photographs from the trip show Obama inspecting a plant where Soviet-era artillery shells and shoulder-fired missiles were collecting dust, leftovers dumped in Ukraine after the USSR withdrew from Eastern bloc nations after the once-mighty communist nation fell apart. That's some good ombre! Gwen Stefani The United Nations had already identified some 7 million small arms and light weapons, and 2 million glides down the tons of conventional ammunition, warehoused in more than 80 weapons depots spread across the Glamour Women Of The country. Year Awards red carpet in a stomach-baring ball Many of the artillery shells shown in photographs from Donetsk, multiple weapons experts told gown MailOnline, would be the same types of ammunition required to repel advancing Russian divisions as they advanced to the west, had they not been destroyed. What a Dream! Blac Chyna shares heartwarming snap of SHARE THIS RELATED ARTICLES newborn daughter ARTICLE sleeping in her arms Warning shots fired by Obama and Putin in war Looked loved up with her Russian troops, but of words: Moscow bundle hopes are raised... denies troops in... A date to forget? Billie The first shots of the After the blunder, No10 Piper removes 'vulgar' Ukraine crisis were considers sanctions: wedding tattoo fired, but... Cameron orders... dedicated to ex Laurence Fox Mr. Fox inking has been removed Two experts said the ammunition, particularly small-arms rounds, would have been useful to train Ukraine's armed forces and million-strong reserves. 'Your mom was just in 'Vast stocks of conventional munitions and military supplies have accumulated in Ukraine,' Obama an accident': Khloe said in am August 30, 2005 statement from Donetsk. 'Some of this stockpile dates from World War I Kardashian and Kylie and II, yet most dates from Cold War buildup and the stocks left behind by Soviet withdrawals from Jenner stunned after East Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungry and Poland.' learning Kris Jenner has been in a car crash 'We need to eliminate these stockpiles for the safety of the Ukrainian people and people around world, in KUWTK preview by keeping them out of conflicts around the world.' Heavenly! Nicole More than a year later, President George W. Bush signed into law a proposal authored by Obama and Scherzinger is a wonder in white gown as she Lugar. attends Los Angeles premiere of Moana Went all Hawaiian hottie for big event For sale! 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