U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton answers questions from reporters during a news conference in the White House briefing room in Washington, U.S., October 3, 2018. Picture taken October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
White House national security advisor John Bolton on Monday begins two days of meeting with senior Russian officials following Washington’s weekend announcement of withdrawal from a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty.
The Moscow visit by Bolton was planned before the Saturday announcement by President Donald Trump that the US was ditching the three-decade-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known as the INF, which Moscow has already denounced as “dangerous.”
The treaty was signed in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the…
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