Posted on 11/09/2022 9:28:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The US and Russia have agreed to hold talks on the single existing nuclear treaty between the two countries in the near future, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Tuesday.
The New START treaty limits all deployed intercontinental-range nuclear weapons by Russia and the US.
The treaty – the only one left regulating the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world – was extended by five years in February 2021 during the first weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency.
It requires both countries to allow on-site inspections of its nuclear weapons-related facilities by the other. Those inspections were paused in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A resumption of the inspections is expected to be a topic of discussion at the upcoming meetings, US officials said.
Diplomatic relations between Russia and the US are in the doldrums following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine with no end to the war in sight but US officials have viewed it as a positive development that Moscow has continued to express interest in the treaty, despite Putin’s alarming nuclear threats as the conflict rages on.
Russia has expressed a willingness to discuss extending the treaty and the US has said that negotiations would only happen once the on-site inspections resume.
Complications arose earlier this year after the US attempted to resume the inspections, but Russia rebuffed the efforts, citing alleged efforts by the US to “deprive the Russian Federation of the right to conduct inspections on American territory.” Price said at the time that the “US sanctions and restrictive measures imposed as a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine are fully compatible” with the New START treaty.
The treaty’s meetings occur under the title of the bilateral consultative commission, the BCC.
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Maybe we can hand Gyorgy over to Putin and let Soros get what he deserves.
Pooty and his nuke cheerleaders have spent 8 months threatening to nuke pretty well anything and everything, but this administration thinks these fidiots are wanting to really talk a treaty? Remarkable the stupidity of governments.
Bad move. Russians always violate nuclear treaties. The deal will harm us but won’t bind Russia at all.
And China is not even included...which is why they are a decade ahead of us with certain missile technology.
And WHO will be speaking for the US? Surely NOT FJB....
Russia will demand Brandon give them pallet loads of cash like in the Iran nuke deal.
It will be a crap sandwich for the world but the Biden crime family will make a fortune.
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