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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 03, 2019, 10:38:49 am

Title: NATO wants to avoid 'new arms race' with Russia, promises 'measured' response after treaty scrapped
Post by: TomSea on August 03, 2019, 10:38:49 am

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NATO wants to avoid 'new arms race' with Russia, promises 'measured' response after treaty scrapped
Lukas Mikelionis

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said Friday it will respond “in a measured and responsible” way to Russia’s new missiles, but said the alliance will work to avoid a new arms race after the end of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said during a news conference that there would be “no rash moves” by the military alliance and “would not mirror what Russia does.”

“We don’t want a new arms race,” Stoltenberg added, but reiterated that Russia is solely to blame for the U.S. decision to leave the historic arms-control treaty signed three decades ago.

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/nato-russia-arms-race-measured-response (https://www.foxnews.com/world/nato-russia-arms-race-measured-response)

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