“There are no political or legal obstacles to the transformation of the INF Treaty into a multilateral agreement,” he noted.
Patrushev added that Washington never provided any evidence of Moscow’s alleged violation of its obligations under the INF.
"At the same time, Washington ignored Russian concerns about the violation of treaty obligations by the United States," he stressed.
Earlier, Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security John Bolton did not rule out negotiations with Russia on arms control, and also noted the possibility of including China in this discussion.
On February 6, the American leader Donald Trump, during the annual appeal to Congress, allowed the United States to enter into a new agreement instead of the INF.
Pavel Kamennov, deputy head of the Center for Socio-Economic Research in China at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on Trump's words in an interview with NSN.