NATO regrets Russia’s decision to suspend participation in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty announced today by Vladimir Putin. According to RBC, this was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a press conference.
Stoltenberg accused Russia of violating key arms control agreements in recent years. “With today’s decision, the entire architecture of the arms control system has been destroyed,” he stressed.
Stoltenberg stressed that he “strongly” recommends that Russia reconsider this decision.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a message to the Federal Assembly, said that Russia was suspending its participation in the START treaty, stressing that Moscow “is not withdrawing from the treaty, but it is suspending it.”
In this regard, he recalled that NATO made a statement in early February demanding that Russia “return to the implementation of strategic arms treaties, with the admission of inspections to our military facilities.” “In the current conditions of today’s confrontation, this sounds like some kind of nonsense,” the president said, adding that “the United States and NATO directly say that their goal is to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, and then they want to drive around military facilities.”
At the same time, according to him, “NATO actually made an application to become a party to the START treaty.” “Such a formulation of the issue is overdue – NATO includes more than one nuclear power,” the Russian leader emphasized.
Source: Rosbalt
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