TIL Desk/World/Moscow/ Moscow is ready to cooperate with Washington to maintain global stability, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “More and more contradictions have accumulated between Russia and the US, two leading nuclear powers, regarding strategic stability,” he said at a press conference with visiting Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Thomas Greminger.
Lavrov said the channels for settling these contradictions had not been used for a long period which created an unacceptable situation from the perspective of global security. “We have repeatedly offered to unfreeze the channels, which are now frozen, and begin a dialogue on all aspects of strategic stability.”
According to Lavrov, the dialogue could include the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which the US plans to abandon, and the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which expires in 2021. Russia is ready to consider the possibility of extending the New START for another five years after its expiration, Lavrov said.
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