The United States said Friday that it hosted a working-level experts’ meeting with counterparts from China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom in “an ongoing exchange” amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
According to the State Department, experts from the foreign and defense ministries of the five nuclear-armed states met on June 13 and 14 in Cairo in the context of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
They discussed “strategic risk reduction, as well as nuclear doctrines and policy,” it said. The U.S. delegation included experts from the State and Defense Departments and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
“The U.S. delegation welcomed the professional approach of the delegations and the inclusion of defense officials in the thematic discussions,” the department said in a statement….