Pushkov called blank Obama’s call for negotiations on nuclear weapons – Lenta.ru

The head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov said the call of US President Barack Obama for talks on nuclear weapons. The corresponding entry MP left on his personal page on the social network Twitter.

«The US should first rebuild the ruined Obama’s relationship with Russia, and then to offer us talks on nuclear weapons. Now his appeal is empty “, – wrote Pushkov

On March 30, the newspaper The Washington Post published an article Barack Obama,” How can we make the reality of our image of the world without nuclear weapons, “in which the US leader said contract violations on. Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF). Given this fact, according to the US President, Washington “continues to call on Moscow to comply fully with its obligations.” The statement was made before the start of the Nuclear Security Summit, which opens in Washington on March 31.

00:05 February 12, 2016

learned in December 2015 that the United States consider the possibility of imposing economic sanctions against Russia because of the fact that , according to Washington, Moscow admits breach of Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty.

The last few years, Russia and the United States mutually accuse each other of violations of the INF treaty. US claims to have cruise missiles P-500 ground-based complex “Iskander-M” and find a new strategic missile RS-26 ( “Frontier”) medium-range missiles, prohibited by the treaty.

Moscow since the end of 1990 ies have repeatedly pointed to the creation of the United States’ missile target test missile defense systems “, which are full of medium-range missiles without warheads. Also in recent years is a matter of construction in Romania launchers for missiles Standard SM-3, allowing to run strategic cruise Tomahawk missiles.

Unlimited Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) was signed in Washington on December 8, 1987 the leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan. The Treaty entered into force on 1 June 1988. Participants treaty pledged not to produce, test, or deploy ballistic and cruise missiles ground-based medium (from 1 thousand to 5.5 thousand kilometers) and small (500 to 1 thousand kilometers) range.