(VOVworld) – US and Russian officials will meet on Thursday to clarify allegations regarding violations of the intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) on both sides. A rocket of the OKA mobile theatre ballistic missile at Kapustin Yar museum (Photo: Leonidl) Marie Harf, a spokesperson for the US State Department, told a press conference in Washington on Tuesday that the US delegation would arrive in Moscow to seek a long-lasting agreement on implementing the INF. The INF was signed in 1987 between the US and the Soviet Union and officially took effect on June 1, 1988. The agreement prohibits signatories from producing or testing surface-to-air nuclear missiles whose ranges are from 500 to 5.500 kilometres.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:30:56 +0000
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