US security chief in Moscow for talks on nuclear weapons treaty

Moscow, October 22 

White House national security adviser John Bolton on Monday began two days of meetings with senior Russian officials following Washington’s weekend announcement of its 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, a move Moscow has already denounced as “dangerous.”   

Bolton arrived in Russia Sunday and is set to speak with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.  On Monday morning he met his Russian counterpart, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. On Tuesday he may also speak about the treaty with President Vladimir Putin. — AFP

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