GENEVA, October 21. /TASS/. Russia has not yet received the United States’ response to its proposal to extend the New START Treaty for one more year after its expiration in February 2026, Konstantin Kosachev, deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, or upper house of parliament and head of the Russian delegation to the 151st assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), said at a discussion on strategic stability and arms control.
He recalled that as a gesture of good will, Russian President Vladimir Putin has put forward an initiative to extend adherence to the primary quantitative limitations under the New Start Treaty for one more year after its expiration in February 2026.
"Russia has once again demonstrated its special responsibility as a nuclear power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council in matters of strategic stability and global security. Its responsibility for the fate of the world. We are currently awaiting a feedback from the United States," he said.
The Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the New START Treaty) was signed in 2010 and entered into force on February 5, 2011. The document stipulates that seven years after its entry into effect each party should have no more than a total of 700 deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) and strategic bombers, as well as no more than 1,550 warheads on deployed ICBMs, deployed SLBMs and strategic bombers, and a total of 800 deployed and non-deployed ICBM launchers, SLBM launchers and strategic bombers. The Treaty was signed for a term of ten years, until February 5, 2021, with a possibility of a further extension upon the parties’ mutual consent.
