U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he viewed Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s proposal to keep existing limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons as a positive step, describing the offer as “a good idea.”

Putin last month offered to voluntarily maintain limits capping the size of the world’s two biggest nuclear arsenals set out in the 2010 New START accord, which expires in February, if the U.S. does the same.

“Sounds like a good idea to me,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House, when asked about Putin’s offer.

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia last week had said Moscow was still waiting for Trump to respond to Putin’s offer to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons once a key arms control treaty expires.

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