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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
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's envoy at the Iran nuclear deal talks, arrives at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, where the IAEA-brokered talks are set to resume in hopes of finding a way to save the historic accord brokered in 2015. This is the first time since March that all the parties (Iran, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany) are meeting, with the participation of the United States, in order to save the agreement, which was supposed to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring atomic weapons. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed his disappointment that Russia and China "basically didn't show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change" at the G20. SOUNDBITE
The US and Russia had a "frank exchange of views" on their only remaining major nuclear weapons accord, the US envoy says, adding that Washington is still determined to bring China to the table. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses China of "fuelling" Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the transfers of dual use materials and weapons components from Chinese businesses to Russia for use in Moscow's military expansion. "If China purports on the one hand to want good relations with Europe and other countries, it can't on the other hand be fuelling what is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War," Blinken tells a press conference after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the Italian island of Capri where he had urged urged his European counterparts to increase pressure on Beijing. SOUNDBITE
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warns European leaders that Russia's Vladimir Putin would exploit any failure to agree to launch his country's EU membership talks. "People in Europe won't see any benefit if Moscow receives a pass from Brussels in the form of negativity towards Ukraine. Putin will surely use this against you personally and against all of Europe," Zelensky tells an EU summit by videolink. SOUNDBITE ++ TEXT 347R2JH
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