Who negotiated the START II treaty?

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Strategic Arms Reduction Talks U.S. Pres. Barack Obama talking with Russian Pres. Dmitry Medvedev, just before the two leaders issued a joint statement about their continued cooperation on the New START Treaty, December 4, 2009.

The START II treaty was negotiated between the United States and the Russian Federation following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The agreement was reached during two summit meetings between U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin.1

The first of these summits took place in Washington, D.C., in June 1992, followed by a second meeting in Moscow in January 1993, where the treaty was formally signed. Under its terms, both nations agreed to significantly reduce their strategic nuclear warheads and eliminate multiple independent reentry vehicles (MIRVs) on their intercontinental ballistic missiles. Although the treaty was a landmark effort in arms control, it never entered into force and was eventually repudiated by the Russian Duma in 2002.12