The ministry said Russia also continues to observe a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range land-based missiles, which "is under serious pressure due to the United States' active preparations to deploy such weapons in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
UN, 16 October. /TASS/. Russia is taking measures to maintain stability in the nuclear missile field, including adherence to the central quantitative limitations established by the Strategic Offensive Arms Reduction and Limitation Treaty (START), and also continues to inform the United States of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launches. This statement was made by Konstantin Vorontsov, Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control.
(TASS/USA)