New administration under Samia Suluhu gives hope after 5 years of hopelessness

When the U.S. pressed to resume those inspections in August, Russia’s foreign ministry said that U.S.-driven international restrictions precluded Russian aircraft from flying Russian inspectors to American territory. American officials expressed frustration that the inspections were being delayed and said that any technical issues on how to carry out the inspections could be resolved.

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While the U.S. had planned to use the meeting to push for the resumption of New START inspections, Moscow has long had its own concerns, including its claims that the American procedures don’t enable Russia to confirm that some U.S. bombers have been converted to nonnuclear use.

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“The fact that a [Bilateral Consultative Commission] meeting—normally a pretty low-key technical event—got so much media attention tells you a lot about how bad U.S.-Russian relations in the nuclear sphere got,” Andrey Baklitskiy, an arms control expert at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, wrote in a tweet. “There are no other bilateral formats to talk about nuclear arms control left.”

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