Moscow sees worrying signs in the US started a media campaign to prepare the ground for the final rejection of the Treaty on comprehensive ban of nuclear tests (CTBT), which calls into question the future of the agreement, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. V. Lavrov in his article "the World is at a crossroads and that the international system is coming" for the magazine " Russia in global politics ". the head of the Ministry said that Washington has also begun implementation of the plans of placing weapons in space, rejecting proposals to impose a universal moratorium on such activities. According to the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs is not clear, and the prospects for Agreement on actions for the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (start-3), as the US has not given a coherent response to the Russian proposal to extend the Contract after the expiry of the validity period in February 2021. Among other examples of the implementation of the revisionist "rules" Lavrov mentioned the US withdrawal from the Joint comprehensive plan of action on Iran's nuclear program and the refusal of the US capital from the implementation of the unanimous decisions of the security Council of the United Nations on the Palestinian-Israeli settlement. The agreement on a comprehensive test ban Treaty (CTBT) was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1996 but has not entered into force, as it is not signed or not ratified by a number of countries, and Among them the United States. All European countries, including the Russian Federation, the UK and France have ratified the CTBT. In 2013, Barack Obama, who was then President of the United States, promised to seek ratification of the Agreement by 2016, but it was not. <span style="color:darkgray