Blinken asks Lavrov to force Russia to sign the START nuclear treaty
- March 2, 2023
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US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken met with his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov To first time since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. According to a senior
US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken met with his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov To first time since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
According to a senior State Department official, the meeting lasted less than 10 minutesWith. A short conversation took place on the sidelines of the ministerial meeting G20 in New Delhi.
At this meeting, Blinken held support for Ukraine to “as much as needed” and asked Lavrov to sign the contract “new beginning“, the only abbreviation nuclear weapon between the two countries, which Vladimir Putin interrupted during the last speech on the state of the nation on February 21 on the eve of the first year of the war.
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In his message, Putin said that Russia was forced to freeze its participation in the treaty because of the policies of the West.
Citing a senior State Department official as a source, Blinken also asked Lavrov to have Russia release Paul Whelan. imprisoned US citizen.
It was Blinken who requested the meeting, which the paper believes suggests the Joe Biden administration wants to keep communication lines with Russia, despite its unconditional support for Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zayarova told the press that Blinken asked to be contacted with Lavrov “on the fly, as part of the second G20 meeting”, and elaborated that “This is not about negotiations or a meeting.”
Blinken indicated this Wednesday from his side in Uzbekistan ahead of a trip to India that he does not plan to meet Lavrov in the G20 (a group of the world’s major rich and emerging economies) and that he will not meet his Chinese counterpart, either Qing Gang.
“We don’t plan to see them at the G20, although I suspect we will definitely be together in group sessions of one kind or another,” Blinken said in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, from where he traveled to New Delhi.
The New START Treaty was signed in Prague, 8 April 2010 then US Presidents Barack Obama and Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev.
The treaty limited the number of strategic nuclear weapons, but no more 1550 nuclear warheads and 700 ballistic systems for each of the two powers, on land, at sea or in the air.
According to EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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