Kremlin says that British and French arsenals must be part of nuclear disarmament conversations.

(Reuters) -Talks In the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons, they must first be carried out between Russia and the United States, but the arsenals of Great Britain and France will finally have to be included in the negotiations, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was summoned on Sunday.

Peskov’s comments are presented in the middle of a Kremlin proposal to the United States this month to voluntarily maintain the limits of strategic nuclear weapons deployed in their new starting arms control treaty once it expires next year if the US. UU. They do the same.

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Putin’s proposal sounded “quite good”, but the problem was for the president of the United States, Donald Trump. The president of the United States has said he wants to open denuclearization conversations with Russia and China.

“Naturally, we have to start the conversations at the bilateral level. The new beginning is, after all, a bilateral document,” Peskov told Tass.

“But in the long term, it cannot remain abstract with these arsenals. In addition, so that these arsenals are a component of the general problem of global strategic safety and stability.”

The new beginning was signed by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, entered into force a year later and extended in 2021 for five more years after the president of the United States, Joe Biden, assumed the position.

In 2023, Putin suspended Russia’s participation, but Moscow said he would continue to observe the limits of the head. Putin this month made his offer to maintain the limits of the treaty when Ukraine tries to convince Trump to impose hard sanctions on Russia during his February invasion of his smallest neighbor.

Russia and the United States have, with much, the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. The new start limits the number of strategic nuclear eyes deployed in 1,550 and the number of delivery vehicles (missiles, submarines and bombers) to 700 on each side.

France and Great Britain, who were never part of the new beginning or their precursor treaties, have much smaller arsenals that add between 250 and 300 eyebrows each.

(Write by Ron Popeski; Lincoln Feast edition).