MOSCOW, November 20. /TASS/. Russia is prepared to relaunch disarmament dialogue with the US; Washington presses Kiev towards negotiations; and Hamas opposes the US plan on Gaza. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
Russia is ready to resume nuclear arms reduction dialogue with the US, which could happen at a session of the Conference on Disarmament in January 2026, Moscow’s Permanent Representative to the UN Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva Gennady Gatilov told Izvestia.
Control over weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms, remains one of the main issues in relations between Moscow and Washington. US President Donald Trump stated in mid-November that he would like to hold a meeting on denuclearization with Russia and China. However, he has not yet given a clear response to Moscow’s proposal to maintain the key limits established by the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which expires at the beginning of 2026, for another year.
"Russia is open to resuming nuclear arms reduction dialogue with the United States, once conditions are created for that," Gatilov noted. According to him, although the US initially sent signals indicating its readiness for dialogue, there hasn’t been much progress in efforts to relaunch full-fledged bilateral communication between Moscow and Washington, including in Geneva. Problems are still there, and it’s not Moscow’s fault.
