Just days before the New START was due to expire in February 2021, Russia and the United States agreed to extend it for another five years. The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, and envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance. “After the problems regarding the resumption of inspection activities under the Treaty are resolved, we will immediately lift the exemptions from inspection activities that we have announced,” the ministry said.
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“Russia is fully committed to abiding by all of the provisions of New START, which we see as a crucial tool for maintaining international security and stability,” the ministry said, urging a “thorough study of all existing problems in this area, the successful settlement of which would allow a return to full-scale application as soon as possible of all verification mechanisms of the Treaty.”
It noted that Russia “highly values” the New START, adding that inspections could resume after the problems hampering them are solved.
The Russian Foreign Ministry claimed that the freeze is temporary and allowed by the pact “in exceptional cases.”
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