WASHINGTON. July 2 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia and the United States have agreed that the new treaty on strategic offensive reductions would limit not only warheads but also their carriers, U.S. presidential adviser Michael McFaul told a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
It was rather difficult to correlate those parameters because the Russian armed forces' structure differs from that of the United States - he said.
Verification procedures are another goal, he said, adding that no work to that effect had been done in the past eight years and new technologies should be applied in the future verification mechanisms.
As for possible limits on the number of nuclear warheads, the adviser said that particular numbers must be set by the end of the negotiations, after the sides had specified what they planned to count.
The sides should decide on the title and the content of the new treaty, he said. The negotiations started only recently with a rather complicated document on the agenda, the adviser remarked.