Russia is ready to continue dialogue with the West on arms control if the United States and its allies abandon their anti-Russian policies. In an interview about this TASS said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“As for the dialogue with the United States on the New START Treaty and the prospects for a replacement agreement, we made it clear that dialogue is impossible without Washington abandoning its anti-Russian course,” the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Ministry.
According to Lavrov, Russia is not against the idea of control, but believes that any dialogue will be possible only if the West observes the principles of equality and respects the interests of the Russian Federation, as well as accepts new geopolitical realities. Otherwise, any negotiation will be meaningless.
February 28 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Law on suspension of the country’s accession to the Treaty on the Reduction of Strategic Offensive Weapons.
Sergei Lavrov in November statedHe said Moscow would not discuss resuming New START procedures with Washington as long as the United States helped Ukraine attack Russian territory through the supply of long-range weapons.
About the lack of preconditions for resuming dialogue in New START stated Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov.