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The Russian government has ruled out resuming the new strategic weapons reduction treaty (new start), the pact signed with the United States authorities for nuclear weapons reduction and control, given the deterioration of relations with Washington. “There are no reasons for a large -scale resumption of the new Start Treaty in current circumstances,” said Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Riabkov, in an interview this Friday with the state news agency Tass. Riabkov, who already rejected in March 2023 reviews the suspension of the treaty until the United States changed its position with respect to Ukraine during the mandate of former president Joe Biden, has stressed again that in order to start the initiative again it is necessary to “revitalize Russian-American relations.” His words occur hours after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, had a “good” conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, who suspended the aforementioned bilateral nuclear treaty at the end of February 2023. The treaty-whose initial text was signed in 1991– limits to 1,550 the ojivas that the two countries can have deployed, in addition to contemplating guarantees in the matter of inspections. and transparency. It was signed in 2010 by the then presidents of the United States and Russia, Barack Obama and Dimitri Medvedev.