Russia makes US a proposal on last significant arms control arrangement.
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Russia says it will freeze its number of atomic warheads to broaden the New START understanding, which lapses in February.
Russia said on Tuesday it is prepared to freeze its absolute number of atomic warheads if the United States did likewise so as to broaden their last significant arms control settlement by a year.
The offer, fourteen days before the US official political race, seemed to limit the hole between the different sides over the destiny of the New START arrangement, which is expected to lapse in February.
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Russia makes US a proposal on last significant arms control deal
Russia says it will freeze its number of atomic warheads to expand the New START arrangement, which lapses in February.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, third from left, at the National Defense Control Center to regulate the trial of another Russian hypersonic rocket framework called Avangard, which can convey atomic and customary warheads, in Moscow, Russia December 26, 2018 [File: Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin through Reuters]
Russian President Vladimir Putin, third from left, at the National Defense Control Center to regulate the trial of another Russian hypersonic rocket framework called Avangard, which can convey atomic and traditional warheads, in Moscow, Russia December 26, 2018 [File: Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin through Reuters]
20 Oct 2020
Russia said on Tuesday it is prepared to freeze its complete number of atomic warheads if the United States did likewise so as to expand their last significant arms control settlement by a year.
The offer, fourteen days before the US official political decision, seemed to limit the hole between the different sides over the destiny of the New START arrangement, which is expected to lapse in February.
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The US a week ago dismissed a Russian proposal to unequivocally expand the agreement for one year, saying that any recommendation that didn't imagine freezing all atomic warheads was a "non-starter".
However, an announcement distributed by the Russian unfamiliar service on Tuesday proposed that the two nations' positions had drawn nearer.
Russia is proposing to expand New START by one year and is prepared along with the United States to make a political duty to 'freeze the quantity of atomic warheads held by the gatherings for this period it said.
New START, marked in 2010, forces limits on the two nations' key atomic munititions stockpiles.
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