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US Rejects Russia’s New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
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WASHINGTON, 17 October 2020, (TON): The White House rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty for at least one year without conditions.
“President Putin’s response today to extend New START without freezing nuclear warheads is a non-starter,” US President’s National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said on Twitter on Friday. The tweet added, “We hope that Russia will reevaluate its position before a costly arms race ensues.”
Russia has proposed that both Russia and the US should cap all nuclear warheads, referring to both strategic and tactical ones. Russian President Putin had proposed at a meeting with permanent members of the country’s Security Council, “I have a proposal, namely, to extend the current Treaty without any conditions for at least a year in order to be able to conduct meaningful negotiations on all issues that are governed by agreements of this kind.”
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