While Russia favors New START treaty extension without any preliminary conditions, the United States keeps evading a final answer, Russia's acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday amid uncertainty on the fate of the deal, which expires next year
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 17th January, 2020) While Russia favors New START treaty extension without any preliminary conditions, the United States keeps evading a final answer, Russia's acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday amid uncertainty on the fate of the deal, which expires next year.
"We favor New START extension without any preliminary conditions, and the president confirmed it in the fall at his meetings with the leadership of Russia's armed forces. I hope the Americans have heard us, we have said this many times. but we do not see any clear, distinct signal so far," Lavrov said at an annual press conference.
