US presents no initiatives to Russia to bring other countries into INF, says Kremlin

Washington has not presented any specific initiatives to Moscow aimed at bringing other countries into the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

“We have heard the US administration speak about the need to bring other countries into the Treaty. We don’t know if the idea is workable,” he said.

“We haven’t received any specific suggestions from our American partners,” the Kremlin spokesman pointed out. “In accordance with the president’s course, we no longer plan to put forward any initiatives on the issue because we have done it many times before,” Peskov noted.

US President Donald Trump said earlier that the United States was ready to consider an opportunity to negotiate a different agreement to replace the INF Treaty, adding China and some other countries.