Ryssland gläds åt Trumps uttalande om kärnvapenavtal
Kreml gläds åt att Donald Trump uttalat sig positivt om en förlängning av nedrustningsavtalet ”New START”, rapporterar AP. Förra månaden öppnade Putin för att förlänga avtalet mellan USA och Ryssland, som begränsar stormakternas kärnvapenarsenaler.
Under söndagen sa den amerikanske presidenten att det ”låter som en bra idé” att förlänga avtalet med ett år.
– Det ger skäl till optimism om att USA stöttar president Putins initiativ, säger Kremls talesperson Dmitrij Peskov.
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New START
Wikipedia (en)
New START (Russian abbrev.: СНВ-III, SNV-III from сокращение стратегических наступательных вооружений "reduction of strategic offensive arms") is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague, and after ratification it entered into force on 5 February 2011.
New START replaced the Treaty of Moscow (SORT), which was to expire in December 2012. It follows the START I treaty, which expired in December 2009; the proposed START II treaty which never entered into force; and the START III treaty, for which negotiations were never concluded.
The treaty calls for halving the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers. A new inspection and verification regime will be established, replacing the SORT mechanism. It does not limit the number of operationally inactive nuclear warheads that can be stockpiled, a number in the high thousands.
On 21 February 2023, Russia suspended its participation in New START. However, it did not withdraw from the treaty, and clarified that it would continue to abide by the numerical limits in the treaty.
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