Lavrov says RF 'has no intention to break the [INF] treaty' Disputing US Claims

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RF says They Have no Intent To Violate INF

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Tuesday pledged adherence to a Cold War-era nuclear treaty and rejected U.S. accusations that it had violated it.

Speaking at a briefing, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the U.S. has failed to provide evidence to prove allegations of Russian breaches of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces, or INF, treaty.

He added that Moscow is ready for an "honest but specific dialogue" and said Russia "has no intention to break the treaty."

The disagreements over the INF treaty come amid the Ukrainian crisis and may further foment Russia-West tensions.

Asked to comment on U.S. considerations to deploy land-based missiles in Europe as a possible response to the alleged Russian violations, Lavrov warned that "building up militarist rhetoric is absolutely counterproductive and harmful."

Lavrov is now saying Russia has no intention to violate INF? Well the Pentagon is under the impression otherwise, thus now developing doctrine based on INF violations. Some miscommunication, or lies?

Now on top of Ukraine and Minsk violations, there is this new tug of war over the INF violations. I believe that Putin announced that Russia did pull out of the CFE treaty in March, didn't he? This tit for tat on treaty violations just gives more room for error and misinterpretation of intent.

The Pentagon doesn't want to talk about it too much now, though.

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-rejects-us-accusations-nuclear-treaty-breach-121350545.html