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Washington, DC, Feb. 2, denouncing the Missile Destruction Treaty in the Middle East and Northeast, signed by the former Soviet Union and the United States in 1987. According to sources in the US Department of 39, State, the official announcement will be made on February 1, according to the Russian service Radio Svoboda
According to the Assistant Secretary of State Andrea Thompson, a period of six months will begin as of this month after which the US authorities will decide on a definitive abandonment of the treaty. , which prohibits the USSR and the United States from having in the arsenal of low and medium range ground missiles. Washington now reserves the right not to perform the contract.
"We will make an announcement, we will take all necessary steps to end our obligations and withdraw from the treaty," said Thompson on January 31.
United States convinced that they would withdraw from the treaty on the elimination of small and medium-range missiles of the cold war if Russia did not respect the terms of the agreement during 60 days. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this decision on December 4, 2018, after members of the NATO summit in Brussels supported the US accusation against Moscow, in violation of treaty provisions concluded in 1987.
Russia, for its part, declared that there were
NATO members consider that Russia has developed and deployed a missile system 9M729 violating a missile treaty
The Mid-Range Missile-Elimination Treaty, signed in 1987, eliminated a whole class of ground-based missiles the base, both ordinary and nuclear, with a range from 500 to 5,500 kilometers.
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