The Russian Defence Ministry today confirmed Russia and the United States will continue nuclear disarmament talks in Geneva in February. A defence ministry spokesman said the Russian chief of staff, Gen. Nikolai Makarov, and the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, met in Moscow yesterday to discuss the drafting of a new nuclear arms reduction treaty and major fields of bilateral cooperation in 2010.He said they agreed to continue the dialogue at the level of experts during the next round of negotiations in Geneva slated for February and to prepare the signing of the treaty. Russia and the United States have been working on a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1) that expired on December 5, 2009. The START-1, signed in 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States, obliged both sides to reduce the number of their nuclear warheads to 6,000 and delivery vehicles to 1,600.