Moscow: Delegations from Russia and the United States began today the second round of negotiations on strategic stability and disarmament, Prensa Latina publishes.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Riabkov is leading the Russian delegation in the talks, while Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman is leading the US delegation, the TASS news agency said.
The first of these face-to-face meetings took place on July 28, at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, led by Riabkov and Sherman.
On that occasion, the Russian official acknowledged that the approaches of Moscow and Washington do not coincide in everything and that is why these meetings are held.
He stressed that the objective is to start the process and analyze in detail where the parties have differences, while trying to find areas of joint work, where there is some perspective.
The talks are an extension of the agreements reached at the June 16 summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden.
In recent years, Moscow has criticized Washington’s abandonment of the most important international conventions on strategic nuclear stability.
However, Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted earlier this year the signing by the United States of the extension of the Treaty for the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Weapons (Start III), for a period of five years.