US authorities are ready to hold a meeting with Russia to discuss Strategic Offensive Arms

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 21, ARMENPRESS. The US President Joe Biden's administration has expressed readiness to meet with Russian partners to discuss the Strategic Offensive Arms Reduction and Limitation Treaty, in which Russia recently suspended participation, ARMENPRESS reports, Gazeta website informed, citing the representative of the National Security Council of the White House.

"We are ready to meet with Russia to discuss issues related to the treaty and nuclear stability," the US official said.

The US administration has also announced its willingness to work on key arms control measures.

In his address to the Federal Assembly, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, informed that Moscow is suspending the participation in the "Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms", signed in 2010.