The white house has not commented on the reports that trump has criticized the start-3 – RIA Novosti

WASHINGTON, February 9 — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. White house Thursday refused to comment on reports that the US President Donald trump in conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin called failed start Treaty 3.

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“The conversation of the President of trump with President Putin was a private conversation between them. And I’m not going to comment on that,” said White house spokesman Sean Spicer, responding to a question during a regular briefing.

As previously reported by Reuters citing two American officials and one former official familiar with the details of the conversation, the Russian leader allegedly raised the issue of the agreement on strategic offensive arms, and trump made a pause in the conversation and asked his advisors, what of the Treaty. According to sources, after that, trump said Putin that the agreement was included in the number of failed agreements of the administration of former President Barack Obama because, in his opinion, he concluded in favor of the Federation.

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The presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin and the United States Donald trump in a telephone conversation on January 28 discussed in particular the situation in Syria, highlighted the priority of joining forces in the fight against international terrorism. Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the telephone conversation between the two presidents was constructive, the sides expressed willingness to resolve difficult issues through dialogue.

Officially, that the two leaders discussed the start Treaty, has not been reported neither by the Kremlin nor the White house. Reuters indicates that the White house refused to comment on the fact that the subject of this agreement raised during telephone contact between the two leaders.

the message of the Kremlin at the end of the conversation it was reported that the parties discussed topical international problems, including combating terrorism, the situation in the middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, strategic stability and non-proliferation, the situation around the Iranian nuclear program and the Korean Peninsula were also touched upon the main aspects of the crisis in Ukraine. The parties agreed to establish partnership cooperation in all these and other areas specified in the message.

In 2010 Russia and the United States signed the Treaty on reducing strategic offensive arms. The agreement SNV-3, which entered into force in 2011, envisages reducing deployed strategic delivery vehicles on each side to 700 and up to 1,550 nuclear warheads on them. The term of the agreement to ten years. Later, President Barack Obama launched an initiative to reduce arsenals of the two countries by a third, but Moscow refused, citing the extension ABOUT the United States and other outstanding bilateral issues. Later the US proposed to extend the start-3 for five years, but the Russian foreign Ministry said that a formal proposal had been brought before it.