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It’s just come down the wire: CNN just reported, in italics, that “Russia on Tuesday, October 13, 2020, rejected assertions by the Trump administration that the US and Russia had come to a “gentlemen’s agreement” on extending a key arms control agreement and dismissed the idea that a deal would be reached before the US presidential election.“ Marshall Billingslea, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control, said, on Tuesday, said “that there is an agreement in principle at the highest levels of our two governments” for the U.S. to extend the New START Treaty “for some period of time” in exchange for Russia freezing its nuclear arsenal. Sergei Alexeyevich Rybakov, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister (relations with American countries and security and disarmament issues), stated that the position on freezing the arsenal was “unacceptable” not because Russia is against freezing, but because Russia needs to deal with the strategic stability problem as a complex problem. Ryabkov said that the U.S. would not get an agreement on strategic arms control from Moscow before the election. He said, “If the Americans need to report to their superiors something about allegedly reaching an agreement with the Russian Federation before their elections, then they will not get it.”

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For those of you who wants to know more about the history behind New START Treaty: Signed in 2010 by former President Obama and then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is meant to verify nuclear arms reduction levels for the United States and Russia. It will expire in less than a year, and so far, there is no other agreement to replace it. Nick Schifrin talks to Chris Ford, who leads the State Department’s arms control bureau, in the video published in March of 2020, “State Dept. official on Trump’s vision for nuclear arms control“, below: In the video published in May of 2020, “U.S. points to Russia treaty violations as cause for American withdrawal“. below: (23 Jun 2020) American and Russian negotiators have concluded a round of nuclear arms control talks in Vienna aimed at producing a new agreement to replace the NewSTART treaty that expires in February, in the video published in June of 2020, “US, Russia conclude round of nuclear talks in Austria“, below: In the video published in September of 2020, “Next nuclear arms control treaty must include and limit China: Amb. Billingslea“, below: Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker More about the community at www.WindermereSun.com Any comments, suggestions, concerns regarding this post will be welcomed at info.WindermereSun@gmail.com

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