As the diplomats noted, Stoltenberg said at a press conference on November 30 that the countries at a meeting of foreign ministers of the alliance countries will discuss approaches to maintaining the arms control regime, “including restrictions on nuclear warheads, taking into account the expiration of the START treaty next February. ".
“One could only welcome the fact that the alliance has finally decided to take care of the situation in the field of arms control, which is steadily degrading as a result of the consistent destruction of the US treaties and agreements in this area,” the message says.
Zakharova added that the NATO secretary general speaks of START "as something already completely predetermined," although most members of the alliance are in favor of extending this agreement.
"Therefore, I would like to understand why Jens Stoltenberg is so confident that START has no life prospects?"
- she said.
On October 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Moscow, proposing to extend the START treaty for a year, is ready, together with the United States, to freeze the number of nuclear warheads.
The United States noted that Washington and Moscow are very close to reaching an agreement to extend the START Treaty for a year.