MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The United States must dismantle its dual-purpose launchers in Europe before suggesting the signing of a new arms control treaty, Federation Council Defense and Security Committee head Viktor Bondarev said.
"Before suggesting a new option of an arms control treaty, - and that is what both Trump and his administration are now talking about on an incredibly regular basis, - the U.S. must dismantle its 'dual-purpose' launchers, to which the Tomahawk attack missiles could be deployed in minutes, in Europe," Bondarev told journalists on Wednesday.
It is also imperative that the U.S. "stops using medium-range missiles as targets while holding tests of the ballistic missile defense system and unmanned aerial vehicles, whose characteristics allow qualifying them as attack missiles of the proscribed range," the lawmaker said.
It would be fair, he said. "Before starting a new stage of the search for a compromise, it is important that the truly guilty side recognizes its past mistakes and corrects them," he said.