“However, we are now seeking a major arms control agreement with Russia and China, and possibly someone else,” Trump said, commenting on the expiration of the Strategic Arms Reduction and Limitation Treaty (START III).
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia and the United States did not have time to develop a new full-fledged document before the expiration of START III.
In turn, Eliot Engel, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and Robert Menendez, Senior Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling for an extension of START III.