Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Sept 5, 2019 18:43:40 GMT 2
(.#B.015).- Tir américain,18-8-2019, Moscou et Pékin crient à l’escalade militaire
USA shooting August 18, 2019, Moscow and Beijing are shouting at military escalation.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
MOSCOW - (AFP) Russia and China yesterday condemned the US's first test of a mid-range missile since the Cold War, denouncing the risk of "escalating military tensions" and a of the arms race.
This American test confirms the death of the INF disarmament treaty that abolishes the use - by Russia and the United States alone - of land-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5500 kilometers, officially suspended by the two rival powers there is less than a month.
The test, successful, was carried out Sunday from San Nicolas Island, off California, at 14:30, according to the Pentagon, which said it is a "variant of a missile of Tomahawk ground-ground attack cruise. " The missile tested has left its launch pad and hit the target precisely after more than 500 km of flight, said the Ministry of Defense.
"The data collected and lessons learned from this test will provide the information needed to develop new medium-range weapons," the Pentagon concludes.
Images published by the US military show the missile fired near the shore, from a Mark-41 vertical launch system.
CRITICAL VIVES
This essay was strongly criticized by Moscow, for which it "shows once again that the Americans were working for the destruction of the INF Treaty".
"They had been preparing for it from the beginning because it is impossible to implement such a trial in just a few weeks, a few months," said Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov.
"This means that it is not Russia, but the United States who by their actions led to the death of the INF Treaty," he said.
" SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES "
China, for its part, lamented, through the spokesman of its diplomat Geng Shuang, "an escalation of military confrontations" which "will have serious negative consequences for regional and international security". He accused Washington of seeking "unilateral military superiority".
After months of dialogue with the deaf, Russia and the United States took note at the beginning of August of the end of the intermediate-range nuclear weapons (INF) treaty, which was signed at the end of the Cold War in 1987 had put an end to the Euromissile crisis, triggered by the deployment in Europe of nuclear-armed Soviet SS-20s.
F I N.
USA shooting August 18, 2019, Moscow and Beijing are shouting at military escalation.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
MOSCOW - (AFP) Russia and China yesterday condemned the US's first test of a mid-range missile since the Cold War, denouncing the risk of "escalating military tensions" and a of the arms race.
This American test confirms the death of the INF disarmament treaty that abolishes the use - by Russia and the United States alone - of land-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5500 kilometers, officially suspended by the two rival powers there is less than a month.
The test, successful, was carried out Sunday from San Nicolas Island, off California, at 14:30, according to the Pentagon, which said it is a "variant of a missile of Tomahawk ground-ground attack cruise. " The missile tested has left its launch pad and hit the target precisely after more than 500 km of flight, said the Ministry of Defense.
"The data collected and lessons learned from this test will provide the information needed to develop new medium-range weapons," the Pentagon concludes.
Images published by the US military show the missile fired near the shore, from a Mark-41 vertical launch system.
CRITICAL VIVES
This essay was strongly criticized by Moscow, for which it "shows once again that the Americans were working for the destruction of the INF Treaty".
"They had been preparing for it from the beginning because it is impossible to implement such a trial in just a few weeks, a few months," said Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov.
"This means that it is not Russia, but the United States who by their actions led to the death of the INF Treaty," he said.
" SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES "
China, for its part, lamented, through the spokesman of its diplomat Geng Shuang, "an escalation of military confrontations" which "will have serious negative consequences for regional and international security". He accused Washington of seeking "unilateral military superiority".
After months of dialogue with the deaf, Russia and the United States took note at the beginning of August of the end of the intermediate-range nuclear weapons (INF) treaty, which was signed at the end of the Cold War in 1987 had put an end to the Euromissile crisis, triggered by the deployment in Europe of nuclear-armed Soviet SS-20s.
F I N.
