INF Treaty Break-Up With Only Hypothetical Thoughts On New Deal Dangerous - Kremlin

The Russian side would not prefer signing a new Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty at the moment and believes that breaking up the treaty with only hypothetical thoughts on a new one would be dangerous, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 23rd October, 2018) The Russian side would not prefer signing a new Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty at the moment and believes that breaking up the treaty with only hypothetical thoughts on a new one would be dangerous, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

"No, I would not say [that we would prefer a new deal]," Peskov told reporters, when asked if the Russian side would prefer a new improved treaty to an existing one.

The Kremlin spokesman stressed that the most important thing was to see whether such a new treaty was doable.

"Giving up on the document like that and then talking about some hypothetical intangible possibility of concluding a new [deal] -- this is a rather dangerous stance," Peskov said.