On Saturday US
President Donald Trump said that Washington will withdraw from the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
MOSCOW, October 21.
/TASS/. Washington's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(INF) Treaty will become a second blow to global strategic stability after US
exit from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2001, head of the Russian
Federation Council's temporary commission on informational policy and
communication Alexey Pushkov wrote on hit Twitter microblog on Sunday.
"In case of US
exit, a powerful blow will be delivered to the whole system of strategic
stability in the world. The first blow was US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty in
2001. The US is once again initiating the withdrawal from the treaty,"
Pushkov wrote.
On Saturday US
President Donald Trump said that Washington will withdraw from the INF Treaty
because Russia is violating the terms of the agreement. At the same time, he
did not rule out signing a new agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces
with Moscow and Beijing if Russia and China provide guarantees of halting the
production of such weapons.
The US has first
accused Russia of violating the conditions of the INF Treaty in July 2014.
Russia refuted all such allegations and put forward their concerns about US
compliance with the Treaty.
The INF Treaty was
signed between USSR and US on December 8, 1987 in Washington, DC.
Source: ITAR-TASS
21-10-2018
