US President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed on Friday the possibility of a new accord limiting nuclear arms that could eventually include China in what would be a major deal between the globe's top three atomic powers.
Mr Trump cited the expense of keeping up the US nuclear arsenal as a motivating factor behind wanting to limit how many weapons are deployed."We're talking about a nuclear agreement where we make less and they make less and maybe where we get rid of some of the tremendous firepower that we have right now," he said.Mr Trump said China during trade talks had"felt very strongly" about joining the United States and Russia in limiting nuclear weapons.
It also includes extensive transparency measures requiring each side to allow the other to carry out 10 inspections of strategic nuclear bases each year; give 48 hours notice before new missiles covered by the treaty leave their factories; and provide notifications before ballistic missile launches. The two men, who last chatted informally at a dinner of world leaders in Buenos Aires on December 1, briefly talked about the report by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller that concluded Mr Trump did not collude with Russia during his 2016 presidential campaign."He said something to the effect that it started off as a mountain, and it ended up being a mouse. But he knew that because he knew there was no collusion whatsoever. Pretty much that's what it was," he said.
Mr Putin told Mr Trump that any external interference in Venezuela's internal business undermines the prospects of a political end to the crisis, the Kremlin said.
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