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.
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…
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.
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.” “