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Biden wants to extend US latest nuclear deal with Russia - Walla! News

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The White House has proposed extending New START for another five years, less than two weeks before expiration. Moscow, which opposed the Trump administration's proposals on the issue, welcomed but said it would wait for details. Without the agreement signed during the Obama era, there will no longer be any oversight of the two powers' nuclear arsenal.


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Biden wants to extend the latest US nuclear deal with Russia

The White House has proposed extending New START for another five years, less than two weeks before expiration.

Moscow, which opposed the Trump administration's proposals on the issue, welcomed but said it would wait for details.

Without the agreement signed during the Obama era, there will no longer be any oversight of the two powers' nuclear arsenal.

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US President Joe Biden wants to extend the last remaining nuclear weapons control agreement with Russia for five years.

The agreement, New START, is due to expire in less than two weeks.



A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin today (Friday) welcomed the proposal, saying Moscow was waiting for details.

"We can all only congratulate the political will to extend the agreement," Dmitry Peskov said in a conversation with reporters.

"But it all depends on the details of the proposal."



The treaty, signed in 2010 by US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits the two powers to the deployment of less than 1,550 nuclear warheads and 700 missiles and bombers capable of inciting them, and seeks mutual oversight for its verification.

It will expire on February 5th.



Russia has long expressed a willingness to extend the agreement without conditions or changes, but former US President Donald Trump waited until last year to open talks on the issue and set a series of conditions that were unacceptable by Moscow.



Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, said Biden's proposal was an "encouraging step" and the extension of the treaty would allow both sides "extra time" to strengthen strategic stability and world security.

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Launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile during a Russian military exercise last month (Photo: AP)

Biden hinted throughout the presidential campaign that he supports the preservation of the treaty, which was signed while he was Obama's deputy.

The talks are strained by tensions between the two powers over many crises, from Russian intervention in American politics to its support for separatists in Ukraine and a widespread cyber attack against the US administration.



Despite the offer to extend the treaty, White House spokeswoman Jen Saki said Biden remained committed to "charging a price" from Russia for its "reckless and hostile actions," including the attempted assassination of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in nerve gas and reports that Moscow offered the Taliban incentives. Money if he kills American soldiers in Afghanistan.



The Kremlin spokesman reiterated Russia's denials of its involvement in any of these actions.

Obama and Medvedev sign New START treaty in Prague, 2010 (Photo: AP, Petr David Josek)

In 2019, the United States and Russia withdrew a medium-range nuclear disarmament INF coach signed in 1987, and last week Moscow announced it would follow Washington and leave the Open Skies agreement that allowed surveillance flights over military installations to build trust and transparency between the West and Russia.



Therefore, supporters of arms control warn that without New START, there will be no oversight of the United States and Russia's nuclear arsenal.

Moscow has opposed proposals by the Trump administration to extend the treaty on the condition that China be a part of it.

After Beijing vehemently opposed this, Washington proposed extending the agreement for a year only and expanding it to limit the deployment of nuclear weapons on a battlefield.



Russia says it is ready for further nuclear talks with the United States on further restrictions, but insists that preserving New START is essential to global stability.



Russian diplomats said the Sarmat intercontinental missile, which is still under development, and the avant-garde supersonic missile, which began operations in December 2019, could be counted alongside other nuclear weapons under the treaty.

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