US President Donald Trump's decision to suspend the United States' participation in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty will pave the way for a dangerous arms race, Senator Ed Markey said in a statement on Friday
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st February, 2019) US President Donald Trump's decision to suspend the United States' participation in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty will pave the way for a dangerous arms race, Senator Ed Markey said in a statement on Friday."President Trump and his war cabinet have yet again decided that America should go it alone, this time, by paving the way for a dangerous arms race, with costly new weapons," Markey said via Twitter. "Withdrawing from the INF nuclear treaty will make the world less safe."
Earlier on Friday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the United States will suspend its obligations under the INF Treaty on February 2 and will begin the six-month withdrawal process unless Russia comes back into compliance in that period.
The INF Treaty was signed on December 8, 1987, in Washington, DC by then US President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. The treaty entered into force on June 1, 1988.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and the former Soviet republics of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine were carrying out the obligations under the INF Treaty.
