Russia and the United States discussed the implementation of the INF Treaty
Representatives of the Russian Federation, the USA, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine held in Geneva the 30-th meeting of the Special Control Commission (SCC), created at one time to facilitate the implementation of the Russian-American treaty on the elimination of medium and short-range missiles, reports TASS State Department message.
"The delegations of the United States, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine met to discuss issues related to the fulfillment of their obligations under the treaty," the report said.
According to the representative of the department, it was “the American side that initiated the convocation of the commission’s meeting”. “The CCM's work is conducted in a confidential manner, so we will refuse to provide additional details.”, - he added.
As the American media previously wrote, “the meeting should be the first in 16 years, it will give an opportunity to Russian and US officials to discuss the“ specifics ”of their mutual claims relating to the INF.
In September, the deputy director of the Foreign Ministry department, Vladimir Leontyev, said: “The question, as far as we understand, is that we have some complaints in terms of the tests we’re supposedly done. At the same time, the American side does not go to any specification of its claims. ”
Russia has its own questions for the Americans: “Firstly, this is a large-scale development and use of target missiles that are completely identical to medium-range and short-range ballistic missiles. That is, the scale of activity in this area is such that, in our opinion, it is a question of developing and testing production technologies and the combat use of these missiles.
“The second problem that we put before the Americans is also not new, they know it well, probably for more than 15 years. These are American drums. Drones, which fall under the definition of "intermediate-range cruise missiles" under the treaty. Here, too, we do not see any oncoming movement from the American side,” Leontiev said.
“Finally, the last problem that arose in connection with the deployment in Europe of elements of a global (system) missile defense system is the use of Mk-41 launchers, which are practically similar, according to the US Missile Defense Agency, which is used in the US Navy to launch cruise missiles Tomahawk, ”he added.
"The delegations of the United States, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine met to discuss issues related to the fulfillment of their obligations under the treaty," the report said.
According to the representative of the department, it was “the American side that initiated the convocation of the commission’s meeting”. “The CCM's work is conducted in a confidential manner, so we will refuse to provide additional details.”, - he added.
As the American media previously wrote, “the meeting should be the first in 16 years, it will give an opportunity to Russian and US officials to discuss the“ specifics ”of their mutual claims relating to the INF.
In September, the deputy director of the Foreign Ministry department, Vladimir Leontyev, said: “The question, as far as we understand, is that we have some complaints in terms of the tests we’re supposedly done. At the same time, the American side does not go to any specification of its claims. ”
Russia has its own questions for the Americans: “Firstly, this is a large-scale development and use of target missiles that are completely identical to medium-range and short-range ballistic missiles. That is, the scale of activity in this area is such that, in our opinion, it is a question of developing and testing production technologies and the combat use of these missiles.
“The second problem that we put before the Americans is also not new, they know it well, probably for more than 15 years. These are American drums. Drones, which fall under the definition of "intermediate-range cruise missiles" under the treaty. Here, too, we do not see any oncoming movement from the American side,” Leontiev said.
“Finally, the last problem that arose in connection with the deployment in Europe of elements of a global (system) missile defense system is the use of Mk-41 launchers, which are practically similar, according to the US Missile Defense Agency, which is used in the US Navy to launch cruise missiles Tomahawk, ”he added.
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