United States welcomes China’s commitment to engage in arms control negotiations, the State Department said in a statement released by its spokesman, Morgan Ortagus on Thursday.
“As such, prudent next steps will need to include face-to-face meetings between the United States and China.”
According to the statement, the Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control, Ambassador Marshall Billingslea, will invite the Chinese government to join in good faith negotiations in Vienna, Austria.
“The United States also recommends that China meet with Russia at an early date to consider next steps for trilateral arms control negotiations.
“We will all bring different perspectives and objectives to the negotiating table and will surely have disagreements. But it is time for dialogue and diplomacy between the three biggest nuclear weapons powers on how to prevent a new arms race,” the statement said.
