U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on strategic stability on Monday, Sputnik news agency reported.
"We recognize that the United States and Russia have demonstrated that even during times of tension, we can make progress on the common goal of ensuring predictability in the strategic sphere and reducing the risk of armed conflict and the threat of nuclear war," the two leaders said in a statement. Pay attention,” he said.
"The recent extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement (New START) demonstrates our commitment to the control of nuclear weapons," he said. reconfirmed," he said.
"Consistent with these goals, the United States and Russia will together initiate an integrated bilateral strategic stability dialogue in the near future," he said. "Through this dialogue, we aim to lay the groundwork for future arms control and risk reduction measures. "He said.
New Start is an agreement signed between then US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April 2010.
The goal is to reduce the number of nuclear warheads deployed by the US and Russia to less than 1,550, and to reduce the number of carriers such as intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and strategic bombers that carry them to less than 700, respectively. are doing
This agreement is the continuation of the Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement (START), in which the United States and the former Soviet Union agreed to reduce nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles in July 1991.
The 10-year New Start Agreement, which came into effect on February 5, 2011, had an additional provision that it would be extended for five years if the two countries agreed.
Ahead of the expiration of the New Start, the US and Russia exchanged diplomatic notes on the extension of the treaty by five years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in January. fermented.