“I believe that it is still possible to reach an agreement in the field of arms control, because in the long run it will be safer for all of us,” said Stoltenberg.
At the same time, he noted that such agreements are unlikely to be reached in the near future.
The NATO Secretary General also stressed that agreements on arms control are of utmost importance to all parties.
“It is in the interests of all of us to reach agreements on arms control if they have a balance and we can verify their compliance,” he said.
Stoltenberg recalled that “the arms race is not only dangerous, but also extremely costly,” which, he said, is testified by the lessons of the Cold War.
Earlier, he said that NATO does not plan to deploy new nuclear missiles in Europe after the collapse of the Treaty on Medium and Short-Range Missiles (INF).
On August 2, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement in connection with the official termination of the INF.
The chairman of the Bureau of Russia Officers, Major-General Sergei Lipova, in an interview with Nation News, called the State Duma’s decision to adopt a law on suspending the INF Committee on Duty of Peacekeeping Events as an adequate response to a unilateral withdrawal from the US treaty.