The United States and Russia have agreed to extend the’New Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement’ (Newsstart), a nuclear reduction treaty between the two countries, by five years.
On the 26th, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden agreed to extend the treaty over the phone, according to the Rianovosti news agency.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Liabkov said the diplomatic authorities of the two countries exchanged diplomatic notes on the extension of the newsstart, and that the treaty was the same as before.
The following day, Reuters reported that the House of Representatives of the Russian Federation (National Duma) approved the extension of the News Start. New Star was signed in 2011 by the US-Russian governments, including nuclear warheads for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) owned by both countries. The main focus is on the major reduction of strategic nuclear weapons, specifically limiting the number of strategic nuclear warheads deployed by the U.S. and Russia to 1,550 each, and the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and submarine launch ballistic missile (SLBM) that can carry them, This treaty was designed to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement (Start) between the United States and the former Soviet Union in 1991 during the Cold War.
Initially, the treaty was expected to expire on February 5, but it will remain in effect until 2026 as the two governments agreed to extend it.
(Seoul = News 1)
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