The head of the United States Donald trump said in an interview to television channel C-Span that he hopes for reaching agreements with Russia in the sphere of surveillance over arms.

first Advisor to the President for state security John Bolton said that the Treaty on reduction of strategic offensive arms (start-3), which expires in 2021, is unlikely to be extended, as it has disadvantages. He confirmed that North America are set to conclude a new Treaty in this area, which would include Russian Federation and China.

Start-3, signed in 2010, is the only existing agreement between the Russian Federation and the USA on the limitation of armaments. The contract ends in February 2021, and as long as the us administration has not announced whether Washington to renew it. Russia for its part announced many times that they are ready to discuss it.

Trump said the desire to develop new trilateral nuclear agreement between Russia, China and the United States. In Beijing, however, rejected this idea.



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