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Russia urges US political will to return to disarmament treaty

  • February 21, 2023
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The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday assured that the suspension announced by the Russian President Vladimir Putinfrom the last contract nuclear disarmament with the US is “reversible”. “The

Russia urges US political will to return to disarmament treaty

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday assured that the suspension announced by the Russian President Vladimir Putinfrom the last contract nuclear disarmament with the US is “reversible”.

“The decision to suspend implementation of START-3 may be reversible,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

For this, US must show “political will” and create conditions for the renewal of the treaty and guarantee its validity, namely that Moscow believes that START III or New START has not yet exhausted its significance for “strengthening international security and strategic stability.”

“However, it can be fully realized only if the potential for symmetrical, equal and strict compliance with START by both countries is restored. Until, any concessions to Washington within the framework of START are absolutely excluded“, explain.

Moscow accuses the US of provoking an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, which this would create a “completely different security situation” for Russia.

In turn, he condemns Washington’s desire inflict a “strategic defeat” on Moscow and are trying to harm him “at any level, in any area and in any region of the world.”

Be that as it may, he emphasizes, Russia intends to continue to comply with the restrictions established by the START treatywhich expires in 2026 and remains in effect.

Among other things, New START reduces the number of nuclear warheads by 30%, to 1,550 per country.

Putin said on Tuesday suspension of the treaty during his address to both Houses of Parliament.

“They want to inflict a strategic defeat on us and they end up in our nuclear facilities. Therefore, I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty,” he said.

He stated that “if the United States conducts nuclear tests of a new type of strategic weapon, then Russia will conduct such tests.”

“Certainly, we won’t be the first to do it (…). No one should harbor the dangerous illusion that strategic global parity can be destroyed,” he commented.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg condemned Russia’s decision to leave dismantled “the entire architecture of arms control.”

The US has suspended arms control dialogue after launching a Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine almost a year ago and last attempting to revive it last November. was postponed by Moscow for an indefinite period.

In addition, in August Russia briefed Washington on his decision to ban U.S. inspections of the site of his nuclear arsenal, arguing that it is difficult to do the same in the US due to Western sanctions. (EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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