“As for interaction with Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov, I invited him to take part in another dialogue on strategic stability, as we did in January,” Ford quotes TASS.
In early July, the US President's special envoy for arms control Marshall Billingsley expressed hope that talks with Russia on strategic stability at the level of technical experts would take place within a few weeks.
On June 22, the previous round of talks between Russia and the United States took place in Vienna, which lasted almost ten hours.