{"id":6138,"date":"2026-02-05T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/05\/un-guterres-new-start-treaty-global-security-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:30:18","slug":"un-guterres-new-start-treaty-global-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/05\/un-guterres-new-start-treaty-global-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Chief Guterres Warns End of New START Treaty Threatens Global Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, described the end of the New START treaty as a perilous moment for international peace and security and warned of its consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres emphasized the importance of the agreement, stating that the expiration of New START poses a serious threat to global strategic stability. He called on the United States and Russia to promptly return to the negotiating table to reach an agreement on a reliable alternative framework.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN Secretary-General, the absence of a credible nuclear arms control agreement could heighten the risk of an arms race and intensify distrust among major powers.<\/p>\n<p>The New START treaty was signed in 2010 between the United States and Russia, aiming to control and reduce the two countries&#8217; nuclear arsenals. Under the treaty, each party committed to limiting its nuclear warheads to a maximum of 1,550.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the expiration of the New START treaty threatens global security and urges the US and Russia to resume arms control talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}