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Meeting of Russia-US Commission on START Rescheduled for Later: Russian Foreign Ministry

The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow.IndiaAfricaMOSCOW (Sputnik) – The meeting of the Russian-US bilateral consultative commission on the New START in Cairo, scheduled for November 29 to December 6, will not take place, and will be postponed to a later date, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik on Monday.”The session of the bilateral consultative commission on the Russian–US START Treaty, previously scheduled in Cairo [November 29 – December 6], will not take place on these dates. The event is postponed to a later date,” the ministry said, without going into any other details.Meanwhile, the United States stands ready to reschedule talks with Russia on the New START Treaty “at the earliest possible date,” the State Department’s spokesperson told US media.

“The Russian side informed the United States that Russia has unilaterally postponed the meeting and stated that it would propose new dates…[The US] is ready to reschedule at the earliest possible date as resuming inspections is a priority for sustaining the treaty as an instrument of stability,” the spokesperson reportedly said.

Moscow informed Washington of its decision to postpone the talks in “recent days”, the spokesperson added.

A meeting to discuss the implementation of the New START Treaty was scheduled to take place on November 29 in Cairo, Egypt.Signed in 2010, the New START is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the US, which aims at halving the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers. It was set to expire last year, however, Moscow and Washington agreed to prolong the treaty for five more years without renegotiating any of its terms.

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