Biden opens to the extension of the Nuclear Treaty with Russia to keep the number of nuclear warheads balanced between the two countries. The treaty, renewed in 2010, will expire on 6 February next. Biden asks for some conditions underlying the signature that Moscow considers unacceptable. In the meantime, the UN votes a resolution banning nuclear weapons worldwide, this is the first time that nuclear weapons have entered the phraseology of international law.

(by Andrea Pinto) The Biden administration has decided to join the extension of the nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia. A news that the Kremlin has welcomed, despite Biden having said in recent days to follow a tougher line with Russia, in reference to the malicious activities that have occurred against the US in the cyber world.

The nuclear deal was last updated in 2010 and places a limit on the number of strategic nuclear warheads the parties can hold and deploy. There are, however, no limitations on the number of conventional strategic weapons and smaller weapons intended for tactical use.

The Trump administration, on the other hand, wanted to delay in extending the terms of the agreement, to try to get China to enter the treaty, even if Beijing had refused, from the beginning, to sit at the negotiating table.

"We can only welcome the political commitment to extend this document", Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, told reporters on Friday.

The treaty limits the number of strategic nuclear weapons the parties can deploy to 1.500 warheads per nation. This is the only treaty that has remained in force since the end of the Cold War. Other treaties have fallen by the wayside. The United States, for example, with Bush withdrew from a treaty banning missile defense systems nationwide, in response Russia withdrew a treaty regulating the deployment of conventional troops in Europe. Instead, the Trump administration withdrew from a treaty banning medium-range missiles.

Biden today asked for an extension for another five years. "This extension makes even more sense when the relationship with Russia is as contradictory as it is right now“, Said Jen Psaki, the press secretary of the White House. The Biden administration and the Kremlin have only two weeks to negotiate the extension before the treaty expires on February 6. However, the talks could suffer moments of tension due to the recent statements by US President Biden who intends to react against Russia for a computer hacking operation that took place last year that violated the computers of the government and some top-level companies in the States. United. Biden also decided to no longer suffer from the Kremlin's military policy in Libya, Syria and Ukraine. The US president also strongly condemned the poisoning and arrest of the country's most prominent opposition figure, Aleksei A. Navalny.

Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said Russian officials will first study the Biden administration's offer and only accept after the agreement is extended. Peskov, in this regard, specified: "Some conditions have been proposed for the extension, some of which absolutely do not suit us. So, first of all let's get to know what the Americans offer us ".

At the UN level, a resolution banning nuclear weapons was approved for the first time last week: it is the first time that such weapons have been prohibited by international law. Fifty-one countries have ratified the resolution concerning the "Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons".

The United States, Russia and other nuclear powers of the world such as Great Britain, China, France, India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan have rejected the treaty while many Western leaders have called it naive and dangerous.

US-Russia Nuclear Treaty, Biden opens to an extension of another 5 years with conditions ...

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