Russia on Tuesday said it delayed nuclear arms control talks with the US that were set to start this week due to differences with Washington and tensions over Ukraine.
“We have encountered a situation where our American colleagues not only demonstrated a lack of desire to take note of our signals, acknowledge our priorities, but also acted in the opposite way,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters.
The US and Russia were scheduled to hold talks to discuss the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty, the New START, in Cairo from November 29 to December 6. Ryabkov said that Russia will eventually propose new dates for the dialogue, but only when “the time is right.”
The talks were expected to be focused on resuming New START inspections that have been paused since March 2020 and held under the bilateral consultative commission (BCC), an implementation body established by the New START. Ryabkov claimed that Russia wanted to discuss other issues besides the inspections but that the US refused.
Ryabkov said that the US support for Ukraine also impacted the Russian decision to cancel the talks. “Naturally, the events unfolding inside and around Ukraine in this case impact that,” he said.
Sure blame the USA.
Because we are in fact to blame, having withdrawn unilaterally from arms control treaties, spending far more on arms to attack others than any other nation, and actually attacking a wide variety of nations on the far side of the world in recent years.
Correction: we spend more on arms to attack other countries than the next seven combined.
Clean, clear and concise NHMW!
You need to think a little bit deeper KH, just a little bit…There is more than enough blame to go around…
Well you can lead by example.
Why are you busting my imaginary stones Mr. Harper?
She does.
Hence forth, I am not engaging you anymore.
Good news.
Good decision. It’s trolling.
Plus the head American arms control negotiator is a box of rocks!
… and the sanctions on the Russian diplomatic corps, landing rights, frozen bank assets, confiscation of sovereign real estate, etc. kinda preclude inspections.
This may well be true CT but it is better than a box of cracker jacks… Although, cracker jacks tastes better than rocks…
Is this your idea of thinking a little deeper?
I still have a slight brain injury KH, I hope you don’t mind.
I can see no reason for the Russians to discuss anything with the Americans.
Consequently, there is no reason not to laugh at the entire fiasco the US/NATO has pulled out of its ass in Ukraine.
I hate Cracker Jacks…………..
Diplomacy died. I did the math on this one folks: “…Russia will eventually propose new dates for the dialogue, but only when the time is right…” = NEVER, when-hell-freezes-over, absolutely not, never-again, no-way, not at any time, not-at-all, neer, not-in-the-least, under-no-circumstances … I’m tired. I’ll go take a nap.
Supposedly, Russia is always willing to have talks with the US until they are not.
For more than 30 years, Russia has been talking. The U.S./NATO has not been listening.
Talking and saying something important is not the same.
Stop encroaching on their borders with a hostile military alliance seems pretty straight forward and important.
Does it matter if you’re not listening anyway?
“Who runs Bartertown?…”
https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/18975
“The Global South births a new game-changing payment system”
I suggest events surrounding Ukraine, Europe and the global economic disaster-in-waiting has advanced the programs completion by next summer.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-running-out-weapons-kiev-regime/5800727
NATO Running Out of Weapons for Kiev Regime
“According to various reports, the enormous demand for artillery munitions is putting tremendous pressure on NATO members trying to meet the Kiev regime’s requests. At present, the Neo-Nazi junta forces are firing at least five thousand shells per day, but the US, by far the most heavily armed NATO member state, can only produce 15,000 shells per month. Camille Grand, a defense expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told the New York Times that “[a] day in Ukraine is a month or more in Afghanistan.” “