NATO says no significant progress on saving the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty has been made in talks with Russia
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the chances of a resolution were"going down, day by day" but that NATO had not given up on trying to convince Moscow to destroy the SSC-8 ground-launched cruise missile.
He said there was still time to save it, pointing to the speed with which Soviet forces were able to get rid of their medium-range weapons after the INF was signed. "We confirmed that in our planning ... we are not intended to deploy corresponding missile systems in Europe and other regions unless the US intermediate- and shorter-range missiles are deployed there," the mission said in a statement.
Alliance ministers last week agreed to review air and missile defences, along with intelligence and surveillance programmes, to boost their readiness to deal with the threat posed by Russia's new 9M729 ground-launched cruise missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 3 signed into law a bill on the suspension of the crucial arms control treaty.The INF deal resolved a crisis over Soviet nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles targeting Western capitals, but put no restrictions on other major military actors such as China.
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