MOSCOW — A top Russian general said Wednesday that a new U.S.-Russian arms control agreement mustn’t cut the number of nuclear warheads below 1,500 each, news reports said.
Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, the chief of the military’s Strategic Missile Forces, said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that it will be up to the Kremlin to make the final decision.
Russian and U.S. officials are currently negotiating a successor deal to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START I, which expires in December. Negotiators are to give a report to their presidents by the time President Barack Obama visits Moscow on July 6-8.
START, signed by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former President George H.W. Bush, led each country to cut its warheads by at least one-quarter, to about 6,000.
In 2002, then-President Vladimir Putin and former President George W. Bush signed the so-called Treaty of Moscow, which called for further cuts.
by the associated press
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