DefenceTalkDefenceTalkRussia on Wednesday urged US President Joe Biden’s new administration to take a “more constructive” approach in talks over the extension of the New START treaty, Washington’s last arms reduction pact with Moscow. “We expect that the new US administration will take a more constructive approach in its dialogue with us,” the Russian foreign ministry […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-urges-biden-to-be-more-constructive-on-arms-treaty-76680/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe United States could be willing to extend its last remaining major nuclear weapons treaty with Russia but only under strict conditions, a senior official said Wednesday. The US and Russia held talks on the New START accord, which limits their nuclear warheads but expires in February 2021, in Vienna on Monday amid a row […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-could-extend-russia-arms-treaty-with-conditions-75759/

DefenceTalkSenior NATO and Russian officials failed to make a breakthrough Friday in talks on saving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, raising the spectre of a renewed arms race in Europe. Western capitals allege that Russia’s latest generation of medium-range missiles breach the terms of the Cold War era INF treaty, and put European cities at […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-says-no-progress-in-russia-talks-on-arms-treaty-72088/

DefenceTalkA treaty laying down international rules for the $85 billion dollar global arms trade goes into force on Wednesday, with campaigners vowing to make sure it is strictly implemented. The United States — by far the world’s largest arms producer and exporter — has signed the treaty, but has yet to ratify it. Other key […]https://www.defencetalk.com/global-arms-treaty-enters-into-force-on-wednesday-61213/

DefenceTalkWashington’s concerns that Russia violated a 1987 arms control treaty “were not assuaged” during a meeting between the two sides in Moscow, the State Department said Thursday. US negotiators nevertheless felt they had a “useful exchange of views” with their Russian counterparts and have “agreed to continue the dialogue,” it said in a statement. Both […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-still-concerned-after-arms-treaty-talks-with-russia-60562/

DefenceTalkUS President Barack Obama’s administration signed a UN treaty Wednesday to track exports of firearms and other conventional weapons, offering a major boost to the pact despite opposition at home. The United States is the world’s largest exporter of conventional arms, accounting for 30 percent of the $90 billion global industry. The landmark treaty aims […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-biggest-exporter-signs-landmark-un-arms-treaty-49212/

DefenceTalkItaly’s parliament on Wednesday ratified the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty, which is intended to stop arms supplies to countries at war or that abuse human rights. The treaty was adopted by the United Nations in April to regulate the $80 billion (59 billion euros) annual trade in conventional arms and stop supplies to states where […]https://www.defencetalk.com/italy-becomes-first-eu-state-to-ratify-un-arms-treaty-49214/

DefenceTalkIf majority ruled in the United Nations, the global arms trade would be regulated. But in the real world, the big guns hold the key to an agreement. Negotiations have resumed at the UN on what has been declared a “final” attempt to reach the consensus necessary for a treaty to regulate the $70 billion […]https://www.defencetalk.com/big-guns-hold-key-to-arms-trade-treaty-talks-47198/