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MOSCOW: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday said that Russia’s main goal was ensuring that nuclear parity with the United States (US) continued to be respected, Russian news agencies reported.
Mr. Peskov spoke hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country would suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty that caps the number of nuclear warheads Russia and the US can deploy.
“The main goal of President Putin and our country is to ensure that nuclear parity continues,” the TASS news agency quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying in an interview with Russia’s state news agencies following President Putin’s address to Russia’s two houses of parliament.
The New START treaty between Russia and US
The New START treaty was the last nuclear treaty between Russia and the US – the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin was preparing a document on Russia’s suspension of the nuclear treaty, which it would then submit to the Russian parliament to formalize the move.
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TASS reported that Mr. Peskov said the Kremlin would publish a new version of Russia’s foreign policy doctrine in the coming days.
