MOSCOW: The United states has not yet offered any new discussion on nuclear arms control, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"They have not even proposed to resume these discussions," Lavrov said on Wednesday during a visit to Myanmar, as per Russian state news TASS.
The New START disarmament deal, the only significant weapons control agreement between the US and Russia still in effect, needs to be replaced. According to DPA news report, the treaty limits each nation's nuclear arsenal to 1,550 operational warheads and 800 operational delivery systems.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden reached an agreement to extend New START in February 2021.
A UN meeting to review the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which will last for a month, began earlier this week.
The New START pact will expire in 2026, and Biden stated at the UN conference that his administration was prepared to negotiate "expeditiously" on a new weapons control framework to take its place. Biden had emphasised that "negotiation involves a willing partner acting in good faith." "And Russia's war on Ukraine represents an attack on the cornerstones of the international order", he added.
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