Pranay Vaddi, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation Issues at the White House National Security Council, said Washington would be pleased with Moscow’s response to a proposal for a meeting in 2023 to discuss the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). This was reported by RIA News.
He emphasized that the United States is still open to discussing this issue with the Russian Federation if it is willing to talk about it now.
Waddy added that in September 2023, Washington handed over to Moscow an unofficial document in which the Russian side was invited to the meeting to discuss a new agreement on strategic offensive weapons and nuclear risk management, as well as additional issues in this area.
Prior to that, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, Bonnie Jenkins statedThat US officials intend to comply with the quantitative restrictions set forth in the Russian-American Treaty on Measures to Further Reduce and Limit Strategic Offensive Weapons (START) in the future.
Former Russian Ambassador answered The State Department was criticized for “violating the New START Treaty”.
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Source: Gazeta
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