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Russia delays nuclear talks with US over Ukraine war

By AP 29 November 2022, 5:48 pm Edit

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov at the State Department in Washington, July 17, 2017 (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov at the State Department in Washington, July 17, 2017 (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Moscow has postponed a round of nuclear arms control talks with the United States set for this week because of stark differences in approach and tensions over Ukraine, a senior Russian diplomat says.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says the decision to put off the talks that were scheduled to start today in Cairo was made at the political level.

“We faced a situation when our US colleagues not just demonstrated their reluctance to listen to our signals and reckon with our priorities, but also acted in the opposite way,” Ryabkov tells reporters in Moscow.