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27 Jan 2021 14:19
Extending New START for 5 years provides good term for work on its further extension or new document - Peskov
MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - The consent between Russia and the United States on extending the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) has been achieved following a period of hard work, and the five-year term for which it is to be extended now is a good period of time, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. Quite intensive work preceded this. You know that this work had to be sped up, as the deadline of February 6 was drawing near, he said. Some work had already been done before the conversation [a telephone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden on January 26], after all, the consent to the proposal on extending the treaty was formulated in the proposal on extending it for five years. This is a good term, which enables the parties to work properly, provided there is political will, either on its further
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