Source: IISS
By Douglas Barrie
If NATO’s language remains guarded, it is also shifting subtly the Alliance’s collective stance over Washington’s accusation that Moscow is in breach of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Russia’s alleged development of a weapon that breaks the treaty was on the agenda of NATO defence ministers at their latest gathering on 3–4 October in Brussels.
At the event, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis and US NATO Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison all flagged the issue of the claimed treaty breach. In remarks made on 4 October, Mattis said that Moscow was in ‘blatant violation’.
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