Brussels-Sana
NATO announced its support for the efforts of Russia and the United States to extend the new START agreement on reducing strategic offensive weapons, which expires in early February.
"All NATO countries support Moscow and Washington on this issue," the Russian news agency TASS quoted NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg as saying during a press conference in Brussels, considering that "the extension of the treaty signed in 2010 is of the utmost importance for all parties." .
Russia expressed earlier today its readiness to start immediate contacts with the new US administration with the aim of extending the new START treaty on limiting strategic offensive weapons, which expires next month.
The Strategic Offensive Control Treaty START 3, signed by former Russian and American presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama on April 8, 2010 in Prague, remains the only treaty in force between Russia and the United States on arms control, and it expires this year 2021, as Washington did not even reply Now, on Moscow’s proposal for an extension, Russia, in turn, has repeatedly stated that it is ready to discuss this matter.
