UNITED NATIONS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th September, 2019) The initial US reaction to the Russian proposal to extend the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty (START) and join the moratorium on non-deployment of medium and shorter-range missiles is not encouraging, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday.
"President Putin announced a decision not to deploy medium- and shorter-range ground-based missiles in Europe or other regions, if and while the Americans refrain from doing this. We urged the United States and NATO to join such a moratorium. We have also repeatedly proposed to Washington to begin negotiations on extending the START treaty. Russia and China are in favor of agreeing a legally binding document on the prevention of an arms race in outer space. But the� reaction of the United States and its allies has not been encouraging so far," Lavrov said in his address to the UN General Assembly.
