Russia Calls US Arms Control Report Judgemental, Biased And Prejudiced

Russia has criticized the US report on adherence to and compliance with arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament agreements and commitments as false, corroborated and exaggerated to show Moscow in bad light.

In a comment to the recently published by US Department of State’s report on adherence to and compliance with arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has accused the report to be judgmental, biased and prejudiced against Moscow.

Russian MoD stated, “The obvious goal is to create a negative image of Russia in the hope that few readers will take the trouble to analyse the details of the unsubstantiated examples of Russia’s alleged violations. When compared to the real state of affairs, the US Department of State’s assessments present a sad picture of these “expert” assessments.

For a third year running, the report provides absolutely unfounded accusations against Russia, which supposedly is in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. According to the report, Russia “continued to be in violation of its obligations under the INF Treaty not to produce or flight-test a ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM) with a range capability of 500 km to 5,500 km, or to possess or produce launchers of such missiles.”

“The United States does not provide objective facts or any other reliable arguments to reiterate these accusations. Therefore, Washington is deliberately trying to create a negative information background related to the INF Treaty in order to discredit Russia,” MFA said.

Russia has asked the US to restrain itself from making propaganda statements on its commitment to further nuclear disarmament and instead should first redeploy American non-strategic nuclear weapons on their national territory (as Russia did about a quarter of a century ago), to ban their deployment outside the US territory, to liquidate the infrastructure that allows the urgent redeployment of American nuclear weapons in Europe, and certainly to halt any military exercises with the military of non-nuclear NATO nations focused on the potential use of nuclear weapons.