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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Beijing, September 23 (Xinhua) — The international community hopes that the United States and Russia will faithfully fulfill their special and primary responsibilities on nuclear disarmament, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.
Guo Jiakun made the statement in response to a request to comment on the news that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed Russia's readiness to continue observing the central quantitative restrictions under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) for one year after its expiration in February next year.
As Vladimir Putin emphasized, this measure will be viable only on the condition that the United States acts in a similar manner and “does not take steps that will undermine the balance of existing deterrent potentials.”
China highly appreciates the positive position expressed by Russia, said the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
"Regarding the New START Treaty between the US and Russia, China's position remains unchanged," Guo Jiakun stated. "It is important that the US and Russia, which possess the world's largest nuclear arsenals, fulfill their special and primary nuclear disarmament obligations, resume treaty implementation, and develop a path to further significant reductions in their nuclear stockpiles on a verifiable, irreversible, and legally binding basis."
According to the Chinese diplomat, this is exactly what the international community expects to see.
The New START Treaty, signed by Russia and the United States in 2010, sets limits on the number of deployed nuclear warheads and strategic delivery systems each side may possess. Moscow and Washington officially extended the treaty for five years in February 2021. In February 2023, Vladimir Putin signed a law suspending Russia's participation in New START, but the country has not withdrawn from the treaty entirely.
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