Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday that while initial talks on reducing strategic nuclear weapons must occur between Russia and the U.S., British and French arsenals will eventually need to be included.

Peskov’s remarks come amid a Kremlin proposal to the U.S. this month to voluntarily maintain for a year the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out in their New START arms control treaty once it expires next year if the U.S. does the same.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good,” but the issue was up to U.S. President Donald Trump. The U.S. president has said he wants to open denuclearisation talks with Russia and China.

“Naturally, we have to start talks at the bilateral level. New START is, after all, a bilat

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