Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia currently has no contact with the United States under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). It has been reported TASS.
“There is no contact with the Americans under the Strategic Assault Weapons Agreement,” the Russian minister said.
Currently, Lavrov does not specify what possibilities and prospects Moscow may have for interacting with Washington under New START.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a message to the Federal Assembly on February 21 this year, said that the Russian Federation is suspending participation in the START Treaty. The head of state pointed out that the country did not withdraw from the treaty. A week later, on February 28, Putin signed the law On the suspension of Russia’s participation in START.
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