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Excerpts from the statement by a Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva, Ambassador Gennady Gatilov, at the plenary meeting of the Conference on Disarmament on the expiration of the New START Treaty:

📍February 6, 2026, Geneva

🔹I would like to express appreciation to H.E. Mr. Thomas DiNanno for the detailed statement on the US Policy with regards to the New START Treaty as well as on the issue of arms control in general.

🔹Briefly summarizing the results of the New START Treaty implementation, we note that, despite a number of issues, at a certain historical stage this agreement played a significant positive role. The Treaty contributed to efforts to eliminate incentives for a strategic arms race and allowed for significant reductions in strategic offensive arms in the Parties’ arsenals. Thanks to the New START Treaty, predictability was ensured in the nuclear missile sphere on a long-term basis.

🔹The termination of this Treaty marks the disappearance, as of 5 February 2026, of the last international agreement on direct limitations on nuclear and missile capabilities.

🔹The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin put forward an initiative for the States Parties to the New START Treaty to undertake voluntary self-limitations to continue observing the quantitative limits laid down in the Treaty after the end of its life cycle, for at least one more year and with the possibility of subsequent extension of this period.

🔹We note that in the period up to 5 February this year no consent followed from the American side to support the Russian proposal.

🔹At the same time, the statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry published on 4 February this year officially emphasized our country’s intention to act responsibly and in a balanced manner. We intend to shape our course in the field of strategic offensive arms based on a thorough analysis of US military policy and the general situation in the strategic sphere.

🔹The operation of the New START Treaty was suspended by the Russian Federation in February 2023 against the backdrop of the unsatisfactory state of affairs with the implementation of certain aspects of the Treaty, as well as due to absolutely unacceptable steps by the Biden administration.

🔹A clear example of such extremely provocative actions are the strikes launched by the puppet regime in Kiev against Russian strategic facilities declared under the New START Treaty, which were made with the clear military-technical and intelligence assistance of Western countries.

🔹There was no automatic inclusion of weapons systems such as Russia’s “Burevestnik” and “Poseidon” complexes in the scope of the New START Treaty. This would have required a full-scale renegotiation of the Treaty.

🔹Speculation that the “Oreshnik” complex should have been taken into account in the context of the New START Treaty is completely unfounded. As previously stated publicly and clearly by our country’s military and political leadership, this complex belongs to the class of medium-range systems. Thus, this weapon is one of those that clearly do not fall within the scope of the New START Treaty.

🔹We kindly ask the American delegation to confirm that it has brought to Geneva an official invitation to begin such negotiations with the participation of the Russian Federation without any preconditions.

🔹If eventually we talk seriously about possible multilateral dialogue on nuclear arms control (and even more so on multilateral nuclear arms reduction), it will be of fundamental importance for Russia to involve in this process also the United Kingdom and France, i.e. military allies of the United States in NATO, which has declared itself a “nuclear alliance”.

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