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A senior official with the fund has called for an assessment of the legal grounds before the immobilized reserves are seized Any steps towards seizing Russia’s frozen reserves should be backed by “sufficient legal support,” IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath has warned in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine published on Monday.

The countries should work out a replacement to the New START treaty “as soon as possible,” a UN official says Russia and the United States need to resume talks on replacing the landmark New START nuclear arms reduction treaty, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.