"They write us notes, protest and say that we have no right to make the decision that we have made. These are all legally insignificant arguments," the minister said in an interview with TASS.
He recalled that Moscow explained very clearly that the Americans "undermined the fundamental principles on which the treaty is based and which are set forth in the preamble."
The document explicitly states that Russia and the United States will develop cooperative relations based on mutual trust, mutual respect and will ensure the indivisibility of security in the context of their efforts to maintain strategic stability, Lavrov recalled.
All these principles were violated and discarded by the current US administration, the Foreign Minister emphasized.
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was suspending its participation in the START Treaty. He noted that the situation in which the US military is at Russian nuclear facilities, while the United States is fomenting further escalation of the Ukrainian conflict, is simply impossible.
After that, the US State Department said that Washington considers it "legally incorrect" to suspend Russia's participation in the START Treaty.