October 26, 2020 - Official translation
The Russian Federation continues to believe that the INF Treaty was an important element of the architecture ensuring international security and strategic stability. The Treaty played the most particular role in maintaining predictability and restraint in the missile sphere in the European area.
We consider the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, that entailed its termination, as a serious mistake, which increases the risks of triggering a missile arms race, rise of confrontational potential and sliding into an uncontrolled escalation. Given persistent tensions between Russia and NATO, new threats to the European security are evident.
Under these circumstances, active efforts are required to reduce the deficit of trust and to strengthen regional and global stability, as well as to lower the risks arising from misunderstandings and disagreements in the missile sphere.
October 26, 2020 - Official translation
The Russian Federation continues to believe that the INF Treaty was an important element of the architecture ensuring international security and strategic stability. The Treaty played the most particular role in maintaining predictability and restraint in the missile sphere in the European area.
We consider the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, that entailed its termination, as a serious mistake...
Zur Frage der weltweit bestehenden Atomwaffenarsenale meinten 5%, sie sollten modernisiert werden, 7% sie sollten bleiben wie bisher und 82% sie sollten vernichtet werden. Speziell zur Frage der US-Atombomben in Büchel waren 10 % für Modernisierung, aber 84% für den Abzug aus der BRD. Auffällig ist die niedrige Quote von 5% bzw. 6% "weiß nicht"-Antworten.
Hier die ganzen Ergebnisse als pdf
United States, Russian Federation Trade Accusations over Breached Commitments, Actions Evoking Cold War Era
The recent collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty cannot become the catalyst for renewed and unconstrained competition in missile development, acquisition and proliferation, the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs told the Security Council today.
Briefing the Council on recent events, Izumi Nakamitsu said the Treaty’s recent termination removed one of the few constraints on the development and deployment of destabilizing classes of missiles. She expressed alarm that there remains no universal treaty or agreement regulating missiles.
“Today, only the Russian Federation and the United States are subject to legally binding restrictions on the number of certain missiles they may possess,” she continued. Echoing the Secretary-General’s call for all States to urgently seek agreement on a new common path for international arms control, she said a growing number of countries — including those not party to existing multilateral arrangements — have acquired and developed their ballistic missile capabilities.
Indeed, more than 20 countries now possess ballistic missiles with capabilities that exceed the threshold for “nuclear capable” as defined by the Missile Technology Control Regime, she said.
06. Juni 2019 Florian Rötzer bei telepolis
(…) Donald Trump hat das Militärbudget wieder hochgesetzt, ist aus Abkommen wie dem INF ausgestiegen und befürwortet nuklearen Hochrüstung. Für ihn sichert das Militär die Macht der USA, um andere Länder durch Bedrohung zu erpressen. Der Kongress hat bei der Erhöhung des Militärhaushalts demonstriert, dass es sowohl demokratischen als auch republikanischen Abgeordneten ein Anliegen ist, die USA als militärisch dominantes Land zu erhalten.
weiterlesen: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/USA-Streit-um-taktische-Atomwaffen-4440665.html
Am 17. September 2009 haben Präsident Obama und sein Verteidigungsminister Robert Gates einen neuen US-Raketenabwehrschild in Europa angekündigt, den auf das Aegis-System aufgebauten European Phased Adaptive Approch, abgekürzt EPAA. Damit haben sie die von der Bush-Administration in Polen geplante Ground-Base Missile Defense, abgekürzt GMD, durch ein – nach Meinung Obamas – "klügeres und schnelleres" Raketenabwehrsystem ersetzt. Die Raketenbasis in Polen und eine ähnliche in Rumänien sollen – anders als das GMD-System – mit einer größeren Anzahl kleinerer und langsamerer Abfangraketen des Aegis-Systems bestückt werden, das schon länger auf US-Kriegsschiffen stationiert ist.
weiterlesen: http://www.luftpost-kl.de/luftpost-archiv/LP_19/LP03319_180319.pdf
Die Politik gegenüber Russland war und ist immer umstritten - die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen sind ein Seismograf für den Friedensprozess in Europa.
Das Verhältnis von Russland und dem Westen ist geprägt durch eine lange und wechselvolle Geschichte. Die Lehren dürfen nicht vergessen werden und sind einWegweiser für Gegenwart und Zukunft. Für Russland kam aus dem Westen meist nichts Gutes, von Napoleon über Hitler bis zur nuklearen Hochrüstung im Kalten Krieg. 27 Millionen Tote des Zweiten Weltkrieges bleiben unvergessen. Nach Beendigung der Ost-West-Konfrontation und der Charta von Paris für eine friedlichen Ordnung in Europawurden die Chancen auf eine echte Partnerschaft in einem „gemeinsamen Haus Europa“ vertan. Die Grundlagen dazu wurden untergraben durch Entwicklungen wie die NATO-Osterweiterung, die Stationierung der US-Raketenabwehr oder der Kosovo-Krieg und andere Militärinterventionen.
Mit westlicher Sieger-Mentalität, den Zurückweisungen und Degradierungen wurde Russland zu einem Feind gemacht,
By Christine Muttonen, Jacqueline Cabasso & Alyn Ware 4.Februar 2019
Christine Muttonen is a former Austrian parliamentarian who served as the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly from 2016-2017. Jacqueline Cabasso is the Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation and the North America Coordinator for Mayors for Peace. Alyn Ware is Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and Disarmament Program Director for the World Future Council.
BASEL, Switzerland, Feb 4 2019 (IPS) - The United States last week officially announced it is walking away from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, an agreement made between the USA and the Soviet Union in 1987 to eliminate a whole class of nuclear weapons that had been deployed in Europe and had put the continent on a trip-wire to nuclear war. (……) This goes against public opinion, which is overwhelmingly opposed to a nuclear arms race, and to nuclear sabre rattling and threats, whether open or veiled, from Presidents Putin and Trump. Despite this, it’s extremely difficult for civil society to directly influence Russian or US nuclear policy.
That points to a deficit of democracy in both countries. It also points up the need for direct actions parliaments, cities and citizens can take to stop the assault on arms control treaties and prevent a new nuclear arms race.
To that end, mayors, parliamentarians and representatives of civil society organizations from 40 countries – mostly Europe and North America, including the mayors of 18 US cities– sent a joint appeal to Presidents Trump and Putin, calling on them to preserve the INF Treaty and resolve nuclear-weapons and security related conflicts through dialogue rather than through military provocation.
more: http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/02/treaties-collapse-can-still-prevent-nuclear-arms-race/
By Theodore A. Postol January 17, 2019 in The nation“
A recent Sunday New York Times editorial bemoaned the Trump administration’s decision to abandon the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which was signed 31 years ago last month by Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan. The treaty, as the Times correctly notes, “eliminated an entire class of weapons, some 2,692 ground-based missiles that can fly in the range of roughly 300 to 3,000 miles and their launchers.”
Yet the Times editorial board, while right to decry the seeming lack of interest in a sustained diplomatic effort on the part of the Trump administration to save the treaty, failed to properly explain the core of the dispute between Russia and the United States over the question of compliance.
(……) „For many years, we have been calling on numerous occasions for holding meaningful disarmament talks on almost all aspects of this matter. In recent years, we have seen that our partners have not been supportive of our initiatives. On the contrary, they always find pretexts to further dismantle the existing international security architecture.
In this connection, I would like to highlight the following considerations, and I expect the Foreign Ministry and the Defence Ministry to use them as guidance. All our proposals in this area remain on the table just as before. We are open to negotiations. At the same time, I ask both ministries not to initiate talks on these matters in the future. I suggest that we wait until our partners are ready to engage in equal and meaningful dialogue on this subject that is essential for us, as well as for our partners and the entire world.
Another important consideration I would like to share with the senior officials of both ministries. We proceed from the premise that Russia will not deploy intermediate-range or shorter-range weapons, if we develop weapons of this kind, neither in Europe nor anywhere else until US weapons of this kind are deployed to the corresponding regions of the world.“ (…...)
hier die engl. Version des ganzen Gesprächs : https://augengeradeaus.net/2019/02/sammler-zum-inf-vertrag-2-die-russische-reaktion/#more-32640