The White House is poised to negotiate a future nuclear arms control framework without preconditions, even as Washington takes countermeasures in response to Russia's decision to suspend the latest nuclear arms control agreement between the two sides.

Jake Sullivan, the White House's national security adviser, is expected to announce in an appearance before the Arms Control Association today that President Joe Biden's administration wants to begin negotiations to create a new framework.

This was announced by an anonymous American top official of the administration familiar with the text of the performance.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in February that he was suspending the START 3 agreement, which, among other things, provides for mutual inspections of nuclear warheads and missiles. He then stated that Moscow would maintain the limits on the quantities of atomic weapons according to the treaty.

The State Department yesterday announced countermeasures to Putin's move. The countermeasures, four in number, include withdrawing from twice-yearly information sharing, suspending notifications to Moscow, not allowing inspections and not providing telemetry information on intercontinental and submarine ballistic missile launches.