US, Russia FMs to start talks on nuke arms control: Putin

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. (File/Reuters)

• “We have charged our respective foreign ministers with starting consultations on this subject...,” Putin said

OSAKA: Foreign ministers from the United States and Russia will begin talks over nuclear arms control but it may not lead to an extension of the START3 nuclear disarmament treaty, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday.
“We have charged our respective foreign ministers with starting consultations on this subject... but we can not yet say whether this will lead to an extension of START3,” Putin told reporters after a G20 summit in Osaka on Saturday.