Thanks for joining us im mary and i havent seen. Russia has suspended a key Nuclear Arms Control treaty one day after the u. S. Did the same in a Statement Released by the kremlin president Vladimir Putin said quote our American Partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we are also suspending our participation we will wait until our partners have mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic. Putin also ordered his ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with washington and said russia would start work on new missiles the tit for tat moves come after america secretary of state and now that the u. S. Was suspending the accord. Its the end of months of speculation and tension secretary of state mike pump aoe has officially signaled that the arms control treaty which has helped keep europeans safe could soon and if russia does not return to full verifiable compliance with the treaty within the six month peri
the treaty and that s why we must talk to russia on behalf of germany foreign minister hai columbus and myself will do everything to make talks possible again in the next six months. the agreements between the us and the former soviet union banned all land based nuclear missiles with a range between five hundred and five and a half thousand kilometers that marked an end to decades of nuclear instability during the cold war. experts now fear the end of the i.n.f. treaty could not only further damage the transatlantic relationship but also threaten the future of other arms control agreements. all right let s get some analysis on all this and for that i m joined by ruff iowa song for the german institute for international security affairs the s w p rafael thanks for being with us so russian president vladimir putin now following suit after the u.s.