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Russia unilaterally postpones the START III summit with the US in Egypt and stirs up the nuclear ghost in the middle of the war in Ukraine

The meeting of the bilateral commission between Russia and the United States on the START or START III Treaty that was to be held starting Tuesday in Cairo has been postponed, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported Monday.

"The session of the bilateral commission of consultations previously planned from November 29 to December 6 in Cairo on the US-Russian START Treaty will not be held on these dates," Russian diplomacy said, without referring to the causes.

Foreign Affairs indicated that "the meeting is postponed for later", by also reserving the possible new date of the consultations.

As reported by the US Embassy in Moscow to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, "the Russian side unilaterally postponed the meeting and stated that it would propose new dates."

The meeting had been announced by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov after Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Narishkin and CIA Director William Burns discussed in Ankara the growing nuclear risk and the international tensions derived from the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

The US suspended the dialogue on arms control after Russia's war intervention in Ukraine.

Russia, in turn, informed Washington in August of its decision to ban US on-site inspections of its arsenal of nuclear weapons, citing difficulties in doing the same in the US due to Western sanctions on overflight permits and the granting of visas. to Russian officials.

5-year extension of the agreement

In February 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, extended the last nuclear disarmament treaty between the two powers, which had been signed in 2010, for five years.

The New START, which specifically includes an arsenal inspection system, was to reduce the number of nuclear warheads by 30%, to 1,550 per country.

In addition, it limited to 700 the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles, those deployed in submarines and strategic bombers equipped for nuclear weapons.

It also reduced to 800 the number of intercontinental missile launchers, submarine ballistic missile launchers, and nuclear-equipped strategic bombers, whether deployed or not.