{"id":43899,"date":"2020-10-14T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/14\/russia-denies-new-start-gentlemans-agreement-with-us\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:34:08","slug":"russia-denies-new-start-gentlemans-agreement-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/2020\/10\/14\/russia-denies-new-start-gentlemans-agreement-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia denies New START \u2018gentleman\u2019s agreement&#8217; with US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 Russia is rejecting U.S. claims the two sides reached an \u201cagreement in principle\u201d to extend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2020\/09\/02\/balls-in-russias-court-on-new-start-extension-says-dod-official\/\" target=_blank>New START<\/a>, their last remaining arms control agreement, casting doubt there would be an 11th hour deal before U.S. elections Nov. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hours after U.S. arms control envoy Marshall Billingslea said Tuesday a \u201cgentleman\u2019s agreement\u201d had been reached at the \u201chighest levels\u201d to freeze U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals and extend New START for an unspecified period, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov contradicted him, saying the U.S. proposal was \u201cunacceptable\u201d to Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the Americans need to report to their superiors something about which they allegedly agreed with the Russian Federation before their elections, then they will not get it,\u201d Ryabkov said according to Russian state-run news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/\" target=_blank>RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Billingslea, the top U.S. negotiator, said he ended meetings in Asia early to meet with Ryabkov because he was confident of a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s why I cut short my trip to Asia and made a beeline for Helsinki when the Russians called and wanted to sit down,\u201d Billingslea said in remarks at a Heritage Foundation event. \u201cAnd I\u2019m hopeful that that sort of gentlemen\u2019s agreement, that arrangement I feel has been reached, as I\u2019ve said, at the highest levels will ultimately need to percolate down through their system, so that my counterpart hopefully will be authorized to negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2020\/08\/26\/cbo-us-nuclear-weapons-budget-could-skyrocket-if-russia-treaty-ends\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6058072.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US nuclear weapons budget could skyrocket if Russia treaty ends<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The New START nuclear pact\u2019s demise could cost the Department of Defense as much as $439 billion for modernization, plus $28 billion in annual maintenance costs, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report published Tuesday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New START limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. Signed in 2010 by then-U.S. President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the pact would expire Feb. 5 but includes an option to extend it for another five years without needing the approval of either country\u2019s legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/2020\/05\/21\/us-russia-new-start-talks-starting-says-envoy\/\" target=_blank>negotiations<\/a>, the U.S. team was focused on making China sign onto a new multilateral pact, but Beijing has refused to take part. Billingslea has since said the U.S. would agree to a mutual freeze of nuclear arsenals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, Ryabkov said: \u201cThe US position in favor of freezing has long been known to us, it is unacceptable to us. Not because we are against freezing, but because we need to deal with the problems of strategic stability as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other remarks at Heritage, Billingslea referenced China\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2020\/09\/01\/china-planning-to-double-nuclear-arsenal-pentagon-says\/\" target=_blank> nuclear weapons buildup<\/a> and said it was controlled by a \u201cwarmongering regime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey intend through this nuclear buildup to brandish nuclear weapons as a way of bullying all manner of freedom-loving countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is rejecting U.S. claims the two sides reached an \u201cagreement in principle\u201d to extend New START, their last remaining arms control agreement, casting doubt there would be an 11th hour deal before U.S. elections Nov. 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