The United States today called for more transparency as it accused Russia and China of not fully reporting their nuclear programmes amid US threats to withdraw from a key arms control treaty.
US undersecretary for arms control and international security, Andrea Thompson said there were “uneven results” in efforts to advance transparency under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Thompson’s remark came at the meeting of five permanent members of the UN Security Council in Beijing for talks on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
She said the gap between the reports of the United States on the one hand, and Russia and China on the other, is great.
Officials from Russia, China, France and Britain countries under the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) treaty also attended the meeting, which will continue till Jan 31.
The talks come after months of raging tensions between Moscow and Washington over the fate of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
US President Donald Trump has promised to walk away from the agreement while President Vladimir Putin has threatened a new arms race, saying Europe would be its main victim.
