Unprecedented reductions in new START - Lavrov

A new strategic arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia will be a radically different agreement to the previous one, according to Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The document will provide a record strategic arms reduction.

The negotiations over the document appeared to have slowed down recently, as the deadline for a new agreement has been pushed back to early next year to replace the existing deal which expired this month.

For weeks, negotiating teams from the two countries have been trying to hammer out the details of a new deal.

The new treaty is expected to reduce nuclear warheads to just over a thousand on each side – a significant cut from the deal agreed in 1991.