bilateral commission meeting Russia Y United States of America about her START or START III agreement from this Tuesday Cairo It was postponed, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Monday.
Russian diplomacy, without citing reasons, said, “The meeting of the bilateral advisory commission on the US-Russia START Agreement, previously scheduled in Cairo from November 29 to December 6, will not be held on these dates.” Said.
The foreigner stated “meeting postponed until later”, without prejudice to the possible new date of consultations.
The meeting was announced by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov, after Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Narishkin and CIA Director William Burns discussed in Ankara international tensions stemming from the escalating nuclear risk and Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.
The United States suspended the dialogue on arms control after Russia’s war intervention in Ukraine.
Russia also notified Washington of its decision in August. Ban US inspections The nuclear weapons arsenal is in place, he claims, making it difficult to do the same because of Western sanctions in the US over overflight permits and issuing visas to Russian officials.
President of Russia in February 2021, Vladimir Putin, and its US counterpart, Joe Biden, The last nuclear disarmament agreement in force between the two powers, signed in 2010, has been extended for five years.
In particular, New START, which included an arsenal inspection system, would reduce the number of nuclear warheads by 30% to 1,550 per country.
Moreover, limited the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles to 700those deployed on nuclear-armed submarines and strategic bombers.
Also, the number of intercontinental missile launchers, submarine ballistic missile launchers and nuclear-equipped strategic bombers, whether deployed or not, has been reduced to 800.