MOSCOW, July 21 Strategic arms control dialogue with the United States is impossible until the Americans change their anti-Russian policy, said Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Anton ov.
«If you ask me if it is possible to resume such a dialogue tomorrow: no. Until the Americans change their anti-Russian policy, it is impossible to talk about this,» Antonov said on the air of Rossiya 24.
According to him, with the US The parties to the embassy «always throw the idea that we are ready to cooperate with you, but only about the problems of START, but do not want to cooperate with you on any other problems.»
“They want only one thing: to look into the mines of launchers and see how many nuclear warheads are there. They don’t want to talk about anything else, they need to check us all the time and we need to be strictly kept on such a short tsugunder (under control — ed.),” he complained.
“I believe that such a conversation, such a dialogue will take place someday, but it’s a pity, as Nekrasov says, neither I nor you will have to live in this happy time,” he concluded.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21 in a message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation announced that Russia was suspending participation in the Russian-American Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), stressing that the country was not withdrawing from the treaty. He noted that before returning to the discussion, it is necessary to understand what countries such as France and Great Britain claim, and how to take into account their strategic arsenals, that is, NATO's combined strike potential. The official note on the suspension of Russia's participation in the Treaty was handed over to the American side on February 28.
In early June, as a countermeasure under START, Washington announced that it would stop transmitting information to the Russian Federation about the status and location of its strategic weapons covered by the treaty, revoked visas issued to Russian specialists for inspections under START, and announced its refusal to issue new ones. In addition, the United States announced the cessation of providing the Russian Federation with telemetric information affecting the launches of American ICBMs and ballistic missiles of submarines. «Zakharova commented on the new EU deliveries of long-range weapons to Kiev»>