{"id":19252,"date":"2018-10-20T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19252"},"modified":"2018-10-20T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T22:23:13","slug":"trump-says-us-will-withdraw-from-nuclear-deal-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19252","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will withdraw from nuclear deal with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"88\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">The United States is going to unilaterally withdraw from a decades-old\u00a0treaty with Russia that bans a wide array of nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed in 1987 by then-US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General-Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">It banned nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges of 500 to 1,000km, as well as their launchers. <\/p>\n<p>The two countries have long accused one another of violating the terms of the landmark treaty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia has not adhered to the agreement,&#8221; Trump told reporters in Elko, Nevada, without giving any further details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to terminate the treaty and we&#8217;re going to pull out,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked what that meant practically, he said&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;ll have to develop those weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the comments as his National Security Adviser John Bolton was in Moscow to meet with Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, ahead of what is expected to be a second summit between Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is going to unilaterally withdraw from a decades-old\u00a0treaty with Russia that bans a wide array of nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump has said. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed in 1987 by then-US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General-Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington. It banned nuclear and conventional missiles with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}