The US stages an intermediate-range missile test on Sunday, its first since withdrawing from the cold war-era nuclear treaty. Photo: Reuters
SCMP: China and Russia to raise US ‘threat to peace’ at UN Security Council meeting
* Analysts fear a new arms race is looming with US withdrawal from cold war nuclear treaty
China and Russia have called on the United Nations Security Council to address US withdrawal from a landmark cold war-era nuclear treaty, citing “threats to international peace and security”.
In a rare move, Beijing and Moscow requested that a meeting on Thursday of the 15-member council discuss “statements by US officials on their plans to develop and deploy medium-range missiles” in the wake of Washington’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
UN undersecretary general and high representative for disarmament affairs Izumi Nakamitsu will brief the meeting, which follows Sunday’s intermediate-range cruise missile test by the United States, its first since pulling out of the treaty which it signed with the former Soviet Union in 1987.
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