State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted a draft law suspending the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). writes about it TASS.
Volodin, “The President of the Russian Federation submitted to the State Duma a draft federal law “On the suspension by the Russian Federation of the Treaty on measures to further reduce and limit strategic offensive weapons between the Russian Federation and the United States of America”. aforementioned.
He noted that parliament will discuss the bill on Wednesday, February 22.
In a message sent to the Bundestag on February 21, Putin announced that the continuation of work under the New START would only be possible if NATO member states with nuclear weapons clarify “how to take into account their strategic arsenals.” Washington urged Moscow to rescind the decision on START, which Brussels said was “destroying the international security system”.
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