It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“The Russian Federation is now forced to resort to this measure as a result of Washington’s persistent desire to implicitly achieve a restart of inspection activities on conditions that do not take into account existing realities, create unilateral advantages for the United States and effectively deprive the Russian Federation of the right to carry out inspections on American soil,” the statement says. Russian Foreign Ministry statement.
It also states that after the resolution of existing issues regarding the resumption of START inspection activities, the announced exemptions from inspection activities will be immediately canceled.
US Presidential Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation Adam Sheinman earlier announced Washington's readiness for a dialogue with Moscow on arms control.
Prior to this, US President Joe Biden said that his administration is ready to discuss with Russia a new arms control system that will replace the START III treaty, which expires in 2026.
Deputy head of the Russian delegation to the UN Andrey Belousov, during the NPT review conference, said that it was the United States that should initiate concrete steps to resume dialogue with Russia on a new arms control agreement that would replace the START III treaty.