(Reuters) -Russia is still awaiting U.S. clarification of President Donald Trump’s remarks on resuming nuclear testing, TASS state news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying late on Tuesday.

Trump had ordered in late October testing of nuclear weapons in the United States, saying the U.S. could not fall behind Russia and China. Peskov said neither Russia nor China had resumed testing.

“We all still have to get some sort of clarification from the American side because neither Russia nor China has resumed any nuclear tests,” Peskov told RT television in comments quoted by TASS.

“We simply can’t say at this point what exactly the U.S. president has in mind.”

Peskov said both Russia and China remained committed to the provisions of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

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