“I really would not have to spend a lot of time thinking and worrying about a moratorium on the INF Treaty, because, quite simply, this will not happen,” Billingsley quotes TASS.
According to him, at this stage, the United States "needs to look to the future."
“And we are doing this, fully recognizing that China was in no way restricted in relation to the INF Treaty ... so now we intend to do the same,” he added.
In addition, Billingsley announced Washington’s readiness “under certain circumstances” to consider extending the START Treaty.
Earlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said that the United States and its allies ignored the proposals of the Russian side to introduce a moratorium on the deployment of medium and shorter-range ground-based missiles.