Brussels: The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, spoke out today against a new arms race between the United States and Russia, Prensa Latina publishes.

In that sense, Stoltenberg expressed himself during a press conference at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance, in Brussels, after today proclaiming by both countries, the end of the Treaty on the Elimination of Short and Medium Range Missiles (INF).

A statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Friday that 'on the initiative of the US side', that treaty, signed in December 1987 between the USSR and the United States, is canceled.

The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, also confirmed the withdrawal of his INF treaty from his country.

In December 2018, Washington presented an ultimatum to Russia to eliminate its 9M729 missiles, located in the Iskander tactical rocket complexes, considering that they violated the agreement, an argument that Moscow refuted long before that requirement.

On February 2, the White House suspended its obligations under the agreement, and announced that it would withdraw from this agreement on August 2.

In response, the Kremlin also stated that it would move away from the text. Russian President Vladimir Putin argued that the United States had long violated its clauses with medium-range missile tests and the deployment of cruise missile launch systems in Romania and Poland.

In his meeting with the press, the head of NATO rejected the possibility of a moratorium with Moscow, proposed Friday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

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