US Vice president Kamala Harris would be curious in the arms control agreement between Washington and Moscow if she had won the presidential election," said Thomas Countryman, president of the American Armed Control Association and erstwhile US Undersecretary of State for arms control and global security.
"The short answer is yes," he told journalists at the margins of the US National Democratic organization Convention in Chicago, Illinois, commenting on Harris' interest.
According to Countryman, the current vice president of the United States will be "significantly more competent" in this substance compared to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
"We are ready to talk to Russia about arms control without preconditions, regardless of what is happening in Ukraine, the door (for negotiation – ed.) remains open," he added.
Earlier, president of the U.S. legislature abroad Affairs Committee, Ben Cardin, said that he hoped that Moscow and Washington would proceed to work together as atomic powers, regardless of the result of the Ukrainian conflict, including by maintaining arms control agreements. Cardinal besides admitted that the US-Russian strategical Weapons simplification Agreement (START) could be extended but not in the close future.
In June, a peculiar assistant to the U.S. President, elder manager of the National safety Council of the White home for the Non-Proliferation of Pranay Vaddi said that the United States would be pleased with Russia's consequence to the 2023 proposal for a gathering to discuss START Treaty.
Earlier Deputy abroad Minister of Russia Sergei Riabkov told the agency that Russia would respect the quantitative restrictions resulting from the START Treaty, provided that further destructive steps by the United States would not make this task pointless for Moscow, and at the same time it is besides early to talk about what will happen in this area after the end of February 2026.
On February 21, 2023, Russian president Vladimir Putin in his message to the national Assembly stated that Russia was holding up its participation in the Russian-American Treaty on strategical Weapons simplification (START-3), stressing that the country is not withdrawing from the treaty. He pointed out that before we return to the discussion, it is crucial to realize what countries specified as France and the United Kingdom are demanding and how to take account of their strategical arsenals, namely NATO's full impact potential.
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