Russia ‘Will Not Stand By and Watch’ US Violate Disarmament Agreements

Monday, June 26, 2017
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
26.06.2017

Leading United States Republican congressmen have urged the White House to pull out from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) between Washington and Moscow.

“[It is] irresponsible for us to continue to adhere to a treaty when the only other participant has long moved on from it,” Republican Mike Rogers, the chairman of a key oversight panel on nuclear weapons, told Politico.
In February, Senator Tom Cotton proposed new legislation which enables INF-range missile systems to be transferred to allies in response to Russia’s alleged violations of the INF Treaty.

The treaty was signed in 1987, with the aim to limit the missile arsenals of the US and the Soviet Union. Within the framework of the deal, the two sides agreed to destroy and not to further develop ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles that have a range of 500-5,500 kilometers. Since then, both Moscow and Washington have repeatedly accused each other of violations of the bilateral agreement.

In February, US media reported that Russia had deployed nuclear cruise missiles in violation of the INF Treaty. In March, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen. Paul Selva said in a congressional testimony that the United States aims to “look for leverage points” seeking Russia’s compliance with the treaty.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has repeatedly said that Moscow was in full compliance with the INF treaty. According to Lavrov, Moscow had its own concerns over Washington’s compliance with the INF Treaty and that the Russian side had repeatedly called on US partners to substantially discuss the most controversial points related to the agreement’s implementation.

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