PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY. July 13 (Interfax) - The current state of Russia-U.S. relations is very bad, both with regard to bilateral contacts and the responsibility for multilateral documents concerning arms control and strategic stability, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
"Our relations are still virtually at a low point, their current state is very bad, both in bilateral terms and in terms of, say, the responsibility of our two countries for multilateral affairs, primarily arms control and strategic stability," Peskov said in an interview with the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin television show.
There are some timid contacts at the expert level "but they are leading us no closer to understanding the responsibility of our countries in terms of preserving some existing documents, primarily the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, ones that remain the only documents that can ensure control over arms on a global scale," he said.
"Because our two countries have the largest nuclear arsenals. No other country, even China, the country the Americans are quite insistently trying to invite to these talks, cannot compare to America or to us by the size of its arsenal," Peskov said.