Q: The U.S. and Russia recently announced that the two countries had reached the Treaty on Measures to Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. How does China comment?

A: China welcomes the new bilateral treaty of nuclear disarmament between the U.S. and Russia. Their massive reduction of nuclear arsenals in a verifiable and irreversible manner will create necessary conditions to bring about complete and thorough nuclear disarmament.

Upholding complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons, China is ready to join hands with the international community and continue to make unremitting efforts for the global nuclear disarmament as well as world peace and stability.