The US confirms negotiations with Russia on strategic stability, and invites China, said the US President’s special envoy for arms control, Marshall Billingslea.
“Today I agreed with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (Sergey) Ryabkov regarding the time and place of the nuclear weapons talks in June”, Billingsley wrote on Twitter, without naming the exact date and place. Bloomberg Agency reported earlier that the talks would take place on June 22 in Vienna.
“China is also invited. Will China come and negotiate in good faith?” Billingslea asked.
Earlier, the United States said that it is thinking about extending the strategic Start-3 Treaty with Russia, which expires in 2021, but offers to expand it to a broad range of new weapons that are not part of the current Start-3, and also offers to include the PRC in the Treaty. China has stated that it is not interested in such negotiations.
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Based on materials from RIA Novosti