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United States Is Wrong To Pull Out Of Nuclear Arms Pact, Says China

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing that China was opposed to the withdrawal.

United States Is Wrong To Pull Out Of Nuclear Arms Pact, Says China

President Trump has pulled out of a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty with Russia (File)

Beijing:

It is wrong of the United States to unilaterally pull out of a landmark Cold War-ear treaty that eliminated nuclear missiles from Europe, China said on Monday.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing that China was opposed to the withdrawal.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump said Washington would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, negotiated by then president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.

The pact provided for elimination of short-range and intermediate-range nuclear and conventional missiles by both countries.

 



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