The Joe Biden administration is seeking to bring Russia to the negotiating table to discuss nuclear arms control after Vladimir Putin suspended Russia's participation in the deal earlier this year.

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On Friday, June 2, the United States will combine an important speech by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan with a move to withhold information from Russia that would have been conveyed under a key nuclear arms control agreement between the two countries.

"We hope that, in general, the kind of communication we're having through this speech, countermeasures, and any potential bilateral follow-ups will lead to discussion," a senior administration official told reporters, adding, "Of course it takes two to tango."

The official said the Biden administration is ready to negotiate with Russia without preconditions.

The countermeasures the U.S. is imposing on June 2 include: U.S. refusal of treaty communications, such as the location of missiles and launchers included in the treaty, and some daily reports of U.S. nuclear force movements.

The State Department on Thursday, June 1, expressed readiness of the United States to cancel the actions taken if Russia returns to compliance with the terms of the treaty.

The Biden administration's efforts to focus on nuclear nonproliferation come at a time when some Republican lawmakers have urged the administration to evaluate current and planned U.S. nuclear forces. So far, the United States has not made any announcements about changing the size of its nuclear forces.

In February, Putin announced that he would suspend Russia's participation in the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Weapons. It is about limiting nuclear weapons.

He stated this on February 21 in a message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

The treaty limits the number of deployed intercontinental nuclear weapons that both the United States and Russia can have. It was last extended in early 2021 for five years, meaning the two sides will soon have to start negotiations on another arms control agreement.

Under a key nuclear arms control treaty, the United States and Russia are allowed to conduct arms inspections of each other, although inspections have been suspended since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

But just hours after Putin announced his decision in a speech, Russia's foreign ministry said the decision to suspend participation in the treaty could be changed.

However, Putin has since said he plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, from whose territory he carried out part of his invasion in Ukraine in February 2022.

Moscow will complete the construction of a special storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus by the end of July, Putin told state TV channel Rossiya 1 last week.

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