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US President Donald Trump’s administration is experiencing frustration after receiving a little indication from Russia whether it will agree to an arms control deal before Donald Trump faces reelection. Now the senior US administration officials are supposedly trying to secure the deal. They have presented a proposal to the Russians 2 weeks ago in Vienna as part of negotiations that started in June. The United States and Russia would extend the soon-to-expire New START pact for a limited time during negotiating a replacement treaty. President Trump and Vladimir Putin would sign a political agreement outlining a framework for the replacement treaty and what it would cover. Trump has long sought to negotiate an arms control deal with Moscow, but so far his administration has only pulled out of pacts with the former Cold War foe, citing violations by Russia.

President Trump delivered his comments on 4^th September and said arms control talks with Russia were a very important thing, more important than addressing global warming. Point to be noted that Trump and Putin have been discussing a deal for months. But the US officials said the Russian government has given the US negotiators little direct feedback outside public commentary since they presented their proposal about two weeks ago. It resulted in US frustration and boiled over into comments in a Russian media outlet by Trump’s top nuclear negotiator, Marshall Billingslea, and a response from his Russian counterpart. Billingslea warned in an interview on Monday with the Russian newspaper Kommersant. He said the price of admission for Russia to secure the deal with the United States will go up if the Kremlin doesn’t agree to terms before the US presidential election.

Billingslea said the United States would insist on a number of new conditions if Russia waits until after the election to decide and Trump wins. The deputy foreign minister of Russia, Sergei Ryabkov said Russia’s main arms control negotiator warned that such ultimatums wouldn’t result in a deal. Ryabkov said, “Either they can stop making their ultimatums and we can start to negotiate something, or there will be no agreement”. He said the US demands don’t correspond to Russia’s idea of what must be done to ensure strategic stability. Ryabkov said in a separate interview with Kommersant that the offer made by the Americans does not look like a good deal and rejected the US preconditions. The US officials still didn’t read comments of Ryabkov as the final word on whether Russia would agree to some kind of deal before the US Presidential Election 2020.