“It seems to me premature to talk about the end of the contract. The president puts forward, and you are probably following this, a proposal for holding trilateral discussions, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
He explained that we are talking about negotiations with Russia and China regarding the replacement of the agreement, the development of a larger agreement restricting the growth of arsenals.
Rood praised the START inspection regime and stressed that there is still time to extend its validity or to prepare some kind of replacement agreement.
Earlier, the State Department also did not rule out the extension of START III.
START was signed by Moscow and Washington in 2010. As Russian President Vladimir Putin noted, this treaty is the last instrument to limit the arms race.