“I'm heading to Austria for arms control talks. The United States is sending one of the highest-ranking delegations there has ever been, including many senior generals, Department of Defense and Department of Energy admirals. This shows how seriously we take this, ”he wrote on Twitter.
Billingsley expressed the hope that Russia will do the same and appreciate their seriousness.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that his meeting with Billingsley would take place in Vienna on August 16-18.
At the end of June, Ryabkov stated that the consultations between Russia and the United States in Vienna on strategic stability did not bring the positions of the two countries closer together.
As US President Donald Trump noted, the conclusion of an agreement on nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia is the largest global problem at the moment.