American administration is convinced that Senate will ratify Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, “new START”, signed with Russia, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stated.

“White House believes Senate will, before the Congress adjournment, ratify ‘new START”, Gibbs said at the press conference.

Gibb’s deputy Bill Burton said earlier on Monday that President Barak Obama is actively lobbying among the senators to vote in favour of that treaty.

According to them, President Obama is still calling senators on the phone, explaining them that new START’s ratification represents an imperative of American national safety.

Ratification of international agreements in the USA is under Senate’s authority and it requires majority of two thirds, which means 67 out of 100 senators.

Obama is trying to push the ratification through before the Senate starts working in January in new assemblage based on November elections’ results.

New Senate’s assemblage still has a democratic majority, but it was reduced from 58 against 42, onto 53 against 47.