The United States declared its readiness to continue constructive cooperation with the Russian Federation under START-3
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and Russia entered into force on February 5, 2011. Earlier, the agreement was signed in Prague Castle on April 8, 2010 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the head of the White House, Barack Obama.
The purpose of the agreement was the mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals by both countries to such a level that in seven years and thereafter the total number of weapons would not exceed 700 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers, as well as 1550 warheads and 800 deployed and non-deployed launchers.
In early February 2021, Moscow and Washington exchanged notes on the completion of the internal procedures necessary for the entry into force of the agreement to extend the START for another five years.
Later, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia complies with all the provisions of the Treaty, continuing the information exchange with the Pentagon and observing all the established quantitative and qualitative restrictions. At the same time, the diplomat noted that Washington, by carrying out a frontal containment of Moscow, violates the main preamble of the START, which refers to the indivisibility of security. In turn, the US State Department accused the Russian Federation of blocking the work of American inspectors at Russian nuclear facilities, which is allegedly a violation of the terms of the Treaty.
Nevertheless, the White House declared its readiness to continue constructive cooperation with the Russian Federation within the framework of START-3. This was announced today by Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States and Coordinator for Defense Policy and Arms Control of the National Security Council of the Presidential Administration Cara Abercrombie.
Abercrombie said during the Arms Control Association's "Problems and Prospects for Further Russian-American Nuclear Arms Control" event.
- Alexander Grigoryev
- https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/СНВ-III#/media/Файл:Obama_and_Medvedev
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