Monday, October 31, 2016, 19:16
| (AP) |
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Monday a law suspends agreement with the United States on the disposal of surplus plutonium with military use, amid mounting tensions with the West.
It comes law , which was published Monday in the government database on the Internet, after weeks of issuing Putin ordered the suspension of work agreement signed in 2000 with former US President Bill Clinton.
the agreement aims to allow the two great nuclear powers to get ridof surplus plutonium with military use, at a rate of 34 tons per country, by turning it especially as fuel for nuclear plants.
this is a key agreement in the nuclear disarmament process, but It has not been implemented at all. In 2010, Washington and Moscow signed an additional protocol to enter into force as of 2018
and approved by the Russian parliament earlier on the law which would suspend the agreement.
This law provides a series of conditions is unprecedented for re - work agreement, including the abolishment of Western sanctions against Moscow and the withdrawal of Russian troops from the states East European members of NATO.
relations between Moscow and Washington to their lowest level since Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014 and the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Putin attributed the decision to suspend the agreement to «radical change in circumstances and the emergence of the threat of strategic stability because of the steps unfriendly of by the United States towards Russia and the inability of (US) for ensuring the fulfillment of their obligations » , according to the presidential decree , which was published Monday.
previously he was accused Putin Washington of not respecting the agreements signed in the Shan plutonium, and using their surplus in the form of retaining its defensive capabilities.
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