Stoltenberg suggested that Russia "way to save" the INF Treaty
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has made the initiative of Russia in the short term to abandon the missile 9п°729. According to the head of the North Atlantic Commonwealth, it will help to save the agreement to destroy intermediate-and shorter-range missiles (INF Treaty).
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has made the initiative of Russia in the short term to abandon the missile 9п°729. According to the head of the North Atlantic Commonwealth, it will help to save the agreement to destroy intermediate-and shorter-range missiles (INF Treaty).
first of Authorized NATO have repeatedly stated that the missiles 9п°729 As if to violate the INF Treaty. The Russian authorities reject these accusations. As stressed in the capital of Russia, the rocket was not designed and was not tested on the range exceeding the set limit.
According to Stoltenberg, in 1987, Russia was able to eliminate cruise missiles, rockets and medium-range missiles for one week. NATO Secretary General said that " Moscow can do this currently if it wants to match the contract."
The USSR and the USA signed a Treaty to destroy intermediate (one to five and a half thousand kilometers) and lower (from five hundred to thousands of kilometers) range in 1987.
The parties undertook to eliminate all the complexes and ballistic missiles with wings terrestrial host with the specified range and not produce, not to test and not to deploy them in the future.
The Soviet Union dismantled its missile by explosion (total destruction of rockets), While 72 IRBM "pioneer" was eliminated by the method of the start with field positions. The elimination of U.S. missiles "Pershing" was conducted by burning with the conservation of the compartments of the control system that was used in the production of target missiles of average range.
The USSR destroyed 1846 missiles, USA - a thousand less.
in October 2018 Donald trump has announced the release of the US capital from the INF Treaty, citing the fact that Moscow is As if it were not in compliance with its obligations. While evidence that the Russian Federation had violated the agreement, the American side has not provided.
later, Secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave Moscow two months to "go back to the execution" of the contract. For example, the U.S. insisted that Russia refused from the rocket 9п°729 (SSC-8), a range which, As argued in the capital of the United States, violates the INF Treaty. In the Russian capital, these accusations are called unfounded.
in February, Russia announced the temporary suspension of compliance with its obligations under the contract in response to similar actions of the United States.
on Wednesday Vladimir Putin signed a law on temporary suspension of the INF Treaty.
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