MOSCOW, January 26. /TASS/. Moscow has not yet received an official response from Washington to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to extend for one year the limitations established by the Treaty between Russia and the United States on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the New START Treaty), Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev stated in an interview with the newspaper "Kommersant".
According to the senior Russian security official, the United States still has time until February 5 to make a decision on the extension.
TASS has compiled key takeaways from Medvedev’s statements.
The Treaty between Russia and the United States on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the New START Treaty) played a positive role at a certain point in maintaining strategic stability and reducing incentives for an arms race, "ensuring necessary predictability in the sphere of strategic offensive arms."
Moscow has not yet received an official response from Washington to Putin's proposal to extend the New START limitations for one year, but the US still has time: "We must wait until February 5 and see if there will be any substantive reaction from the United States to the Russian initiative."
