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Is New START Already Unraveling?

February 8, 2011 :: AP :: News

Yesterday, Sergei Ryabkov, the Deputy Foreign Minister for Russia, reiterated language that has been coming out of Moscow for weeks—that under a variety of circumstances, the U.S. pursuit of missile defenses in Europe will be considered grounds for Russia's reconsideration of or even withdrawal from its obligations under the New START treaty. Any augmentation of the "qualitative" or "quantitative potential of [U.S.] missile defense" may even lead to a positive Russian response, "including military-technical measures." Ryabkov is here echoing President Dmitry Medvedev, who has said in the last month that unilateral pursuit of missile defenses by the U.S. and NATO might be grounds for the deployment of a Russian offensive nuclear group.

 

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