MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian-American commission to oversee the implementation of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty will start functioning some time soon, a Russian Foreign Ministry source told RIA Novosti on Friday.
The opening of the commission was not delayed intentionally, insisted the source.
"We have worked out an approach to the mandate of this group. We have agreed that the commission should have a clearly worded mandate to promote the implementation of the treaty.
"The commission will start working one or two months behind schedule," said the source.
This may happen some time soon. "We will complete the process rather soon as we have agreed all major issues with our American colleagues," he said.
