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US President Joe Biden's administration has "completed the necessary legal procedures" to extend the New START nuclear treaty with Russia by five years, US State Department spokesman Ned Price announces in a press conference. SOUNDBITE
Vienna (Austria), 23 June, EFE, (Camera: Jordi Khus). The United States announced new talks with Russia on Tuesday to renegotiate a nuclear arms control agreement between the two powers and insisted on including China in the process. Marshall Billingslea, US special emissary for nuclear disarmament, told reporters the parties plan to meet again in late July or early August after the first round of negotiations in Vienna on Monday.FOOTAGE OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE FOR U.S. SPECIAL EMISSARY FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, MARSHALL BILLINGSLEA, INCLUDES STATEMENTS BY MARSHALL BILLINGSLEA
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warns Russia that it would withdraw from the Cold War-era treaty limiting mid-range nuclear arms if Moscow does not return to compliance within 60 days. SOUNDBITE
The United States denounces Russia's veto that ended a UN panel monitoring sanctions on North Korea, accusing Moscow of seeking to hide its growing military cooperation. "Russia's actions today have cynically undermined international peace and security, all to advance the corrupt bargain that Moscow has struck with the DPRK," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden says during his State of the Union address that Ukraine is capable of stopping Putin if the US provides Kyiv the "weapons it needs to defend itself." SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).