Biden: Moscow's decision to suspend START-3 treaty is a blunder

Biden:

Moscow's decision to suspend START-3 treaty is a blunder

US President Joe Biden called Moscow's decision to suspend START-3 a "big mistake."

The US journalist Ed O'Keefe wrote on Twitter just before the Bucharest 9 leaders meeting, Biden said Russia's suspension of START-3 was a "grave mistake."

In his Tuesday speech to the Federal Assembly

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the suspension of Russia's participation in the START Treaty, stressing that it had not withdrawn from it but had suspended its work.

Before returning to the talks, he noted

"we must understand what countries like France and Britain are competing for, how we will take into account their strategic arsenals, and NATO's common offensive capabilities."

The preliminary ratification of the Treaty "Start-3"

between the (then) Russian Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and the American, Barack Obama, took place in the Czech capital Prague on 8 April 2010.

The Agreement became effective on February 5, 2011.

after its ratification in Munich :

by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his then-U.S. counterpart, Hillary Clinton, and was called START-3, with a 10-year term, extendable for an additional 5 years.

The START-3 Treaty provides for a 30% reduction in

the quantity of intercontinental "nuclear" offensive warheads owned

by both Russia and the United States, as well as a 50% reduction in

the ceilings of strategic launch mechanisms, formulated on the basis of the equal number of nuclear warheads and ensuring the security of both countries equally.

What do you know about :

the START Treaty that Putin announced today to suspend?

The preliminary ratification of the Treaty "Start-3"

between the (then) Russian Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and the American, Barack Obama, took place in the Czech capital Prague on 8 April 2010.

On February 5, 2011, the Agreement became effective.

after its ratification in Munich :

by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his then-U.S. counterpart, Hillary Clinton, and was called START-3, with a 10-year term, extendable for an additional 5 years.

The START-3 Treaty provides for a 30% reduction in the quantity of

intercontinental "nuclear" offensive warheads owned by both Russia and the United States, as well as a 50% reduction in the ceilings of strategic launch mechanisms, formulated on the basis of the equal number of nuclear warheads and ensuring the security of both countries equally.

The Convention specified :

the quality and quantity of weapons that

both countries could possess 7 years after their signature

so that the number of nuclear warheads in both countries

the 700 nuclear warheads on ground bases

1550 nuclear warheads on naval naval and air bases, and stipulated that the number of fixed and mobile ground platforms for launching the 800 nuclear missiles should not exceed one.

Under the Treaty, the parties are free to determine the nuclear tripartite structure "a combination of air, sea and land carriers", and to deploy other new types of missiles and carriers, provided that they notify each other.

The Treaty prohibits both Russia and the United States from deploying strategic offensive weapons outside both countries' geographical boundaries.

START III consists of 3 separate parts, namely the text of the treaty

the treaty protocol, the technical annexes

• and all these levels are legally binding on both parties.

• The text of the treaty and the protocol contain

• the parties' basic rights and obligations

• so that data may be exchanged between them

• to verify compliance with the terms of the treaty.

A Russian-American advisory committee meets twice a year in Geneva to examine and coordinate emerging issues related to the Convention.

Under the Convention :

joint committees from both countries are formed to conduct inspections within military bases where strategic weapons are located, at a rate of 18 inspections per year.

The importance of START III is that it is the last remaining treaty between Russia and the United States on the control of nuclear weapons, following their withdrawal in 2019, from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Weapons Treaty, signed by both parties in 1987.

By February 5, 2018

Russia had fulfilled all of its obligations

reducing the number of its strategic offensive weapons to 527, 130 fewer than the number provided for in the Convention, as well as its commitment to all details of the Convention, in terms, qualitative and timely terms, by the United States' own recognition.

The United States has illegally and unilaterally excluded

 without consultation with Russia, part of the United States strategic offensive weapons, declaring them "reprocessing", including 56 Trident-II SLBM bombers and 41 B-52H heavy launchers.

The United States also refused to

include 4 intercontinental ballistic missile launchers under the pretext of their training.

Under former U.S. President Donald Trump

Russia offered the United States to extend

the treaty's duration

unconditionally or restrictively, and to begin freezing the operation of nuclear arsenals until the conclusion of the agreement between the two parties, which the U.S. administration rejected, on the pretext that it was not in the interest of U.S. national security.

In January 2021 :

US President Joe Biden's office announced its approval of

Russia's proposal to extend a treaty "START-3"

negotiating with Russia on the details, and the meetings between the two parties began

and an agreement was reached to extend it for an additional 5 years

but ratification did not take place, due to the interruption of the talks between the two parties, once the special military operation in Ukraine began, where the United States led and launched the boycott and restoration campaign of sanctions against Russia.