Media: Bolton insists US withdrawal from arms control treaty

As telling life.ru,

US National Security Advisor to the President, John Bolton, is seeking a way out of Washington from the Treaty on Missiles and His Faraway World (INF), accusing Russia of its division. This writes the Guardian, citing its own sources.

“Bolton, the third national security adviser to Donald Trump, issued a recommendation to withdraw from the INF Treaty of 1987, which, as the United States says, Russia violates by developing new cruise missiles,” the article said.

The publication reports that many State Department and Pentagon officials strongly disagree with the position of Bolton.

Recently, Washington has increasingly accused Moscow of violating the INF Treaty concluded between the two countries in 1987. On October 12, the Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, responded to another such attack.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has repeatedly reiterated that Russia is strictly abiding by the terms of the agreement, while there are serious issues in the United States side. In particular, according to the Russian authorities, the United States, bypassing the treaty, is deploying installations for launching Tomahawk-type attack cruise missiles in Romania and Poland, developing attack drone vehicles and funding research on the creation of ground-based cruise missiles.

Earlier it was reported that Bolton on Saturday will fly to Moscow for a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev.