The Russian side does not see preconditions for resuming a dialogue with the United States on strategic nuclear arms, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a review on “Russia’s Foreign Policy Activities in 2015” released on April 26, 2006.
“There has been stagnation in our dialogue with the United States on arms control issues. Those contacts were incidental in view of the previous decision of Barack Obama’s administration to stop bilateral military interaction,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
“We steadily tried to bring our point home to the Americans that we do not see any preconditions for resuming a concrete discussion on strategic nuclear arms issues except for the continuation of regular sessions of the Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC) to discuss issues related to the implementation of the START treaty,” the Russian Foreign Ministry noted, adding that the sides continued joint work in multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation directions.
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