MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. Moscow expects Washington to make an attempt to organize a session of the bilateral commission on the New START treaty in 2023, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday.

"We expect the United States to make good faith efforts to create conditions for the organization of the commission’s session in 2023 and return to the full-format implementation of the New START’s provisions," she wrote on her Telegram channel.

She explained that Russia’s decision "to postpone the session of the Bilateral Consultative Commission (DCC), scheduled for November 29 - December 6 in Cairo, was made on the political level, reflecting the extremely negative situation in Russian-American relations, which was created by Washington and continues to steadily deteriorate."

According to Zakharova, Moscow considers the Treaty on Measures for the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) as an important tool for ensuring stability and preventing an arms race, which is in the interests of both the United States and Russia.

"Russia continues to regard the New START treaty as an important tool for ensuring predictability and preventing an arms race. It continues to meet the interests of both parties. In particular, an uninterrupted exchange of notifications on the status of START plays a significant stabilizing role," she stressed.

"We note the highest level of toxicity and hostility on the part of Washington in all areas. Amid the total hybrid war that has been unleashed against us, each step the United States is taking concerning Russia stems from a pathological desire to do as much harm to our country as possible," she noted.

This situation, in her words, cannot but affect the sphere of arms control, "which cannot be seen as something autonomous, something unrelated to geopolitical realities." "One must have a very peculiar logic to demand that Russia demonstrate restraint, transparency and predictability in the military sphere while at the same time helping the Kiev regime kill our servicemen and civilians in Russian regions, supplying more and more destructive weapons and sending American instructors, advisers and mercenaries to Ukraine," she stated.

The diplomat noted that Russia sees the United States’ continuous attempts to correct the balance set by the New START treaty and tilt it in its favor. Thus, the United States has illegitimately exempted a considerable part of its weapons, saying that they have been re-equipped or "renaming them in a way so that they don’t fall under the treaty’s terms."

"We have been working with the Americans on this matter for a long time and have even made some progress, but the problem is still unsettled," Zakharova said, adding that instead of discussing Russia’s concerns at the commission’s meeting, the United States planned to insist on the resumption of inspections under the treaty, despite the fact that they were responsible for this crisis.