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Russians and Americans towards an extension of the New Start treaty

2021-01-22T21:25:46.221Z


Moscow and Washington have made a step towards an extension in extremis for five years of the key treaty of nuclear disarmament New Start, the Kremlin saying Friday “to welcome” the proposal in this direction of Joe Biden. "We can only welcome the political will to extend this document" a few days before its expiration on February 5, Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Read a


Moscow and Washington have made a step towards an extension in extremis for five years of the key treaty of nuclear disarmament New Start, the Kremlin saying Friday

“to welcome”

the proposal in this direction of Joe Biden.

"We can only welcome the political will to extend this document" a

few days before its expiration on February 5, Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Read also: Biden wants to extend the New Start disarmament treaty with Moscow for five years

"Everything will depend on the details of this proposal",

which still

"

must

be studied"

, he added, however, the previous American administration, that of Donald Trump, having wanted to set conditions for the extension of the treaty.

However,

"a certain number of these conditions absolutely did not suit us, so let's first take note of what the Americans are proposing and then we will make a comment,"

insisted Dmitry Peskov.

New US President Joe Biden proposed Thursday, the day after taking office, to extend this key nuclear disarmament treaty between Washington and Moscow for five years.

New Start is

"in the interest of the national security of the United States and such an extension is even more necessary when relations with Russia are strained,"

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said during a press conference.

The Trump administration had only accepted a conditional one-year extension while it was time to negotiate a more comprehensive agreement that included China, but talks with Moscow and Beijing were unsuccessful.

Signed in 2010, this treaty is the last major agreement to reduce and limit the number of armaments existing between the former rivals of the Cold War who today accuse each other of fueling a new arms race.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also welcomed Joe Biden's proposal, saying he saw

"the extension of the treaty not as an end, but as the beginning of efforts to further strengthen control. international nuclear weapons conference ”.

"Agreements that cover more weapons and include more nations like China should be on the agenda in the future,"

he added in a statement.

NATO and UN satisfied

In New York, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also praised the willingness of the United States and Russia to extend the treaty for five years, according to his spokesperson.

He

"encourages the two States to work quickly to complete the procedure necessary for this extension of the Treaty before its expiry on February 5"

, added Stéphane Dujarric.

"This decision paves the way, if Russia, which has declared itself in favor, confirms its agreement, to maintaining an essential pillar of the international architecture of arms control and disarmament"

, argued for his part. French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Elected with the promise of having a tougher stance vis-à-vis Russia than his predecessor, Joe Biden nevertheless asked the American intelligence services

"for a global examination"

of the recent giant cyberattack blamed on the Russians and possible

"interference"

in the last American elections.

This analysis must also relate to information published in the American press according to which Russia paid

“bounties”

to the Taliban to kill American soldiers.

Responding to journalists 'questions, Dmitri Peskov evacuated these two subjects and ruled that

"a lot of American taxpayers' money"

had been spent to accuse Russia, without success.

Russian diplomacy this week said it hoped for

"more constructive" work

with Joe Biden for the extension of New Start, judging that the Trump administration had meanwhile led

"a campaign"

to end arms control.

Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from three key international agreements: the one on Iranian nuclear power, the INF treaty on medium-range land missiles and the Open Skies treaty on the verification of military movements and the limitation of armaments.

Russia therefore left the latter as well.

Russian-American relations are at their lowest since the end of the Cold War, due to persistent disagreements on numerous international issues, American accusations of Russian interference in the elections or large-scale cyber attacks.

Signed in 2010, the New Start treaty on strategic nuclear weapons (those with the longest range) limits the arsenals of Russia and the United States to a maximum of 1,550 warheads deployed for each of these two countries, i.e. a reduction by almost 30% compared to the previous ceiling set in 2002.

Source: lefigaro

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