The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, warned Donald Trump on Thursday, January 29th, that signing a new nuclear disarmament treaty, following the expiration of the START III treaty on February 4th, will be a “long and difficult” process.
“The development of a new treaty will be long and difficult. There are many factors involved”, declared the spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin at his daily press conference, reports Agerpres.
The Kremlin’s statement comes after former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev emphasized on Monday that, before the conclusion of such a treaty, “a basic normalization of Russian-American relations is necessary”.
“We need to ensure that Washington is genuinely willing, not just in statements, but also in practice, to respect our fundamental security interests. And that it is capable of collaborating on equal terms to reduce the potential for conflict”, continued the former Russian president.
He noted in this regard that the signals coming from Washington “are clearly insufficient”.
Therefore, Medvedev believes, “it is better to have no START IV at all than to have an agreement that masks mutual distrust and provokes an arms race in other countries”.
On Thursday, Peskov recalled a statement by Trump, in which he argued that signing a new treaty to replace START III would not be a problem.
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