Global concern: Trump withdraws from US nuclear deal and arms race is feared

The withdrawal, which was expected several months ago, puts an end to years of unresolved dispute over Russia's compliance with the pact, known as Intermediate Treaty on Nuclear Forces (INF, for its acronym in English), which It was signed in 1987 in Washington by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, confirmed that Saturday in Washington "suspend your obligations". It would be complete within six months, "unless Russia comes back to respect the agreement" destroying all its missiles that are considered violating the bilateral agreement.

At the same time, in Brussels, the conduct of North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) issued an official note in which it fully supported the US decision.

The United States has decided to withdraw from the agreement "in response to the serious risks posed to Euro-Atlantic security by the testing, the hidden production and deployment of the 9M729 system by Russia"NATO stressed in its note.

"Allies fully support" the US decision, he added.

Shortly before the confirmation of the American gesture, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Heiko MaasHe said that Russia had "invalidated in fact" the nuclear agreement.

Russia regretted the US decision to withdraw from the treaty, adding that it was waiting for the official notification shortly.

"We all regret that this decision will be implemented in the coming days", the Kremlin spokesman told reporters, Dmitry Peskov.

However, he added that "The decision to go in the direction of breaking the agreement was taken in Washington some time ago".

Even the Russian president, Vladimir Poutine, warned the risk of a new arms race if the treaty collapses, a prospect that worries all over Europe.

The head of European diplomacy, Federica MogheriniHe called on both parties to preserve the treaty "total compliance".

"We absolutely do not want our continent to become a battlefield or superpower confrontation again, it belongs to an old story"he said.

For his part, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stressed that history had taught a country "very clear lesson".

"This lesson is that whenever there was a conflict between the East and the West, we in Central Europe were the losers", a point.

Hungary, he said "It does not seem to have much power in this area, we can barely cross our fingers and expect more pragmatic cooperation between East and West".