US withdraws from rocket treaty with Russia: is the world waiting for a new cold war

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This happened after Russia refused to destroy new missiles, which, according to NATO, violate the terms of the treaty.

“The United States is withdrawing from the treaty today,” said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Bangkok, noting that Russia is fully responsible for terminating the agreement.

“The United States will not remain parties to the treaty, which is intentionally violated by Russia,” the state secretary added.

Nonetheless, President Donald Trump expressed the hope that countries will succeed in concluding a new agreement that will replace the historic treaty concluded during the Cold War.

“Russia would like to do something in terms of a nuclear agreement, and it suits me. They want to do something, and I, too, "- said Trump, responding on Thursday evening to the question of the correspondent"VOA».

At the same time, the president noted that he had not discussed the INF Treaty with the Russian President Vladimir Putin during the telephone conversation.

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“When tomorrow the agreement expires, the world will lose an invaluable tool for stopping nuclear war. This is likely to increase, rather than reduce, the threat posed by ballistic missiles, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters on Thursday. “Whatever happens, the parties must avoid destabilizing situations and urgently try to reconcile a new common path to international arms control.”

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The US authorities for several months resented the fact that Russia ignores calls from Washington and European countries to stop violating the agreement, especially in connection with the SSC-8 cruise missiles.

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Russia insists that it strictly abides by the terms of the agreement and does not allow violations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin a month ago signed the lawsuspending the country's participation in the agreement. Five months earlier a similar step accomplished Trump administration.

The historic agreement has been one of the pillars of European security for over 30 years. The agreement prohibits the development and deployment of land-based nuclear missiles with a range from 500 to 5 500 km. European leaders, fearing a new arms race, called on both Washington and Moscow for constructive cooperation in order to preserve the treaty.

There are concerns about the possible consequences outside of Europe.

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“The prospect of deploying medium-range nuclear ground-based nuclear missile systems in Asia could cause similar political upheavals among Asian allies,” said Laura Kennedy, the former US ambassador to Turkmenistan and the former US Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

“Even if the US planned to deploy such future systems only in its territories, say, in Guam, China could regard such a step as a threat and in response present a new wave of rocket systems as a counterweight,” Kennedy, who works as a consultant in the organization, added Foreign Policy for America.

On Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry officially confirmed that the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles ceased from August 2.

"2 August 2019 of the year on the initiative of the American side terminated the Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America on the elimination of their medium-range and shorter-range missiles signed in Washington 8 December 1987 of the year", - said in a document published by the ministry.

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However, Moscow offered the United States and NATO to declare a moratorium on the deployment of medium-range and shorter-range missiles, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

“We are not offering new negotiations to the Americans, this was clearly stated by the President of the Russian Federation 2 in February of this year,” Ryabkov said in an interview with TASS. - They offered the United States and other NATO countries to weigh the possibility of declaring the same moratorium on the deployment of medium and shorter range means like ours, like the moratorium that was announced by Vladimir Putin, who said that Russia would refrain from having similar funds in the region from the placement of our respective systems, when we have them. "