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One day following the announcement of “Suspension of information provision following the New Start”… “Compliance with the limits on the quantity of nuclear weapons”
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs “Voluntary and good faith measures under the 1988 agreement on missile launches”
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(Istanbul = Yonhap News) Correspondent Cho Seong-heum = Russia announced that it would continue to provide information on missile launches such as intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to the United States.
In response, Russia said it was a “good faith measure” by using past agreements instead of the Nuclear Disarmament Treaty with the United States, in which Russia had stopped participating.
According to Archyde.com, AP, and TASS news outlets on the 30th (local time), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters that day, “From a political and legal point of view, all types of information exchange under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) will be implemented.” “However, Russia will voluntarily comply with the 1988 agreement between Russia and the United States on notification of missile launches while adhering to its nuclear arsenal quantitative limits,” he said.
Accordingly, Russia has decided to continue to notify the United States of related information regarding missile launches such as ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).
Deputy Minister Ryabkov described this as a ‘sign of goodwill’ and emphasized that he had made this position clear to the United States both verbally and in writing.
Deputy Minister Ryabkov’s statement that he will continue to provide information on missile launches to the United States is contrary to what he said the day before.
The previous day, he said, “All information exchanges between Russia and the United States under the New Start have been suspended,” and that future missile test launches will not be announced to the United States.
The conflict between the two countries over nuclear weapons control is intensifying when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on the 22nd of last month that he would stop participating in New Start in his State of the Union address.
The New Start, which was signed in 2010, aims to reduce the number of nuclear warheads and carriers between the US and Russia to a certain number and to conduct periodic inspections of nuclear facilities between the two countries.
The agreement is valid until February 2026 following being extended once, but President Putin unilaterally announced that he would suspend participation in the agreement at a time when negotiations for the extension were at a standstill.
On the 28th, the United States decided not to disclose the current status of its nuclear warheads to Russia, and took a countermeasure.
In response, Russia raised the level of response even further, such as deputy minister Ryabkov declaring the suspension of information exchange following the New Start the day before and starting a nuclear force inspection exercise using the ‘Yars’ ICBM.
On the same day, Deputy Minister Ryabkov repeatedly raised the theory that the US is responsible for the suspension of nuclear weapons-related information exchange.
“If the United States had stopped participating in the treaty in accordance with their procedures, they would have had the right not to provide us with relevant information,” he said. is assumed to have been violated.”
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