According to the Financial Times newspaper, Europe has stated its readiness to hold talks with Russia on agreements that limit the deployment of certain types of missiles.
The publication writes that European officials spoke in favor of discussing the restoration of conflict prevention mechanisms that operated during the Cold War. The publication cites the 1992 Open Skies Treaty as an example.
The worsening of relations between the Soviet Union and NATO in the late 1970s and the first half of the 1980s became known as the "Euromissile crisis." At that time the USSR began deploying mobile intermediate-range nuclear missile systems RS D-10 "Pioneer" in the union republics.
In response, the United States deployed "Pershing" missiles in West Germany. They were subsequently eliminated in accordance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by the parties in 1987. In 2019 that treaty ceased to be in force.
In May, the ambassador-at-large of the Foreign Ministry and head of the Russian delegation at the NPT review conference, Andrei Belousov, stated that Russia had put forward new arms control initiatives, but Western countries rejected them.