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In a forum called the Valdai Dialogue Club, President Putin said that the United States’ position with Britain and France has weakened, while China and Germany, politically and economically, are heading. to superpower status, according to Reuters.

If Washington is not prepared to discuss global issues with Moscow, Russia is ready to discuss it with other countries, Putin said in his online speech.

On the eve of the US presidential elections on January 3, Putin expressed his expectation that the new government would be ready for dialogue on nuclear safety and arms control.

Moscow and Washington still have many disagreements over the extension of the New START, although the two sides have been negotiating for the past few months.

However, on October 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Moscow would be ready to “freeze” all nuclear warheads if the United States did the same to extend New START by one year.

Armenian-Azerbaijani hostilities: the new ceasefire is broken in just a few hours

Also at the forum, Putin said that Moscow believes nearly 5,000 people have died since fighting broke out between Azerbaijan and the Armenian minority in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh area on September 27.

Despite Russian-mediated ceasefire agreements, the fighting continued. President Putin said the United States could help Russia mediate and find a solution to this conflict.




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