The United States said Tuesday that it will stop sharing information with Russia about its conventional weapons in Europe, dpa reported. The move comes after Moscow in 2007 stopped sharing information about its weapons with 29 other countries as part of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty.
"We have tried repeatedly to bring Russia back to the table because we do believe in the CFE and we think it provides reassurance," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. "But we're at a stage now where, after a number of efforts to salvage this, we don't think it's in our interest to continue to provide data that is not reciprocated on the Russian side."
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Other US NATO allies are also likely to stop providing information to Russia on their non-nuclear weapons to protest Moscow's noncompliance, Nuland said. The other parties to the treaty will continue to provide that information to each other. |