MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st October, 2018) Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Sunday proposed bringing in the UN to mediate the crisis over the proposed US pullout from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
US President Donald Trump said earlier he wanted to withdraw from the Cold War-era treaty co-signed in 1987 by Gorbachev and his then US counterpart Ronald Reagan to ban medium-range nuclear missiles.
"This is an issue that the United Nations and the Security Council should tackle as it concerns the world," he told Sputnik, adding all international institutes should also step in to avert a new arms race.
