俄羅斯星期一面臨遵守削減戰略武器條約最後期限
The United States believes that Russia will honor its commitments under the bilateral Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) by the Monday deadline.
“The United States has met the central limits of the New Start treaty in august 2017. We assess at this time that Russia has also progressed toward meeting those limits. We have no reason to believe that the Russian government will not meet those limits as well," U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said.
The State Department said in a release late Sunday that both countries will exchange data on their respective nuclear arsenals "within the next month, as we have done twice per year over the last seven years in accordance with the Treaty."
The New START Treaty was signed in Prague on April 8, 2010 and came into force on February 5, 2011.
It limits the U.S. and Russia to no more than 1,550 nuclear warheads and also limits deployed and non-deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles, heavy bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.美國認爲，俄羅斯將在星期一的最後期限之前遵守兩國簽署的削減戰略武器條約。
美國國務院發言人諾爾特說，美國2017年8月滿足了新削減戰略武器條約的條件，俄羅斯也朝同一方向去的了進展，因此美國沒有理由認爲俄羅斯將不會滿足條約的規定。
國務院在星期天的聲明中說，兩國將在下個月之前交換各自和武器庫的有關數據，並且在過去7年以來每年都進行兩次數據交換。
新的削減戰略武器條約2010年4月8號簽署，2011年2月5號正式生效。
條約規定，美國和俄羅斯的戰略核彈頭總數不能超過1550，同時還限制已部署和未部署的洲際彈道導彈、遠程戰略轟炸機和可用潛艇發射的導彈的數量。
