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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Mark Trevelyan

Russia downplays hopes for upcoming nuclear talks with U.S. in Egypt

FILE PHOTO: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov attends a meeting of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Moscow, Russia March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Pool

Russia said on Friday it did not expect a quick breakthrough in talks with the United States on resuming nuclear arms inspections that it said would take place soon in Cairo.

The two countries agreed in March 2020 to halt mutual inspections under the New START treaty - the last surviving pact on limiting their strategic nuclear arsenals - because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then they have failed to reach a deal to resume them.

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