Russia willing to compromise nuclear arms treaty, but seeks Europe's help

Russia today said it is ready to co-operate with Washington to maintain control over weapons, but requires Europe's help to facilitate the talks.

Monthly tensions seem to come to an end, since Russia has expressed itself ready to preserve the international treaty for dealing with nuclear weapons known as INF (Intermediate-Rang Nuclear Forces Threety), which was signed in 1987 by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The current American president, Donald Trump, had promised to leave this treaty, prompting the threats of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had said that should this happen, Europe would be the first victim in the nuclear arms race.

Speaking immediately after several meetings Americans and Russian officials had in Geneva on the issue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow is willing to continue talks.
“We are still ready to work to preserve the INF” agreement, the Russian top diplomat said.
He called on European states to help influence Washington, with the reason that such decisions should not be left “on the US's tail”.

Last month, Washington has been eating to give up the nuclear weapons treatment treaty within 60 days.

Moscow's chief negotiator in talks in Geneva, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, said negotiations placed Russia in the spotlight because of its 9M729 system. But the United States disagreed.

Lavrov on the other side, said today that Russia during the talks in Geneva had constructive proposals to give the US an idea of what the 9M729 system included.

Contrary to that, US representatives came with an ultimatum position demanding that the missiles be destroyed, and all weapons under American monitoring”, Lavrov said.

American representatives on the other side have explained to the media why they disagree with Russian proposals.
You're breaking the treaty, not in”, is one of their responses to Russia.

The INF agreement resolves a crisis on Soviet nuclear missiles targeting Western capitals, but does not impose restrictions on their use on other major military actors, such as China. / Translate: Periscope