Duma - Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org Let No Man Take Your Crown Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:37:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-Screen-Shot-2024-05-16-at-1.06.13-PM-32x32.png Duma - Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org 32 32 Russian lawmakers vote to scrap ratification of nuclear test ban treaty https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/russian-lawmakers-vote-to-scrap-ratification-of-nuclear-test-ban-treaty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russian-lawmakers-vote-to-scrap-ratification-of-nuclear-test-ban-treaty Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:37:33 +0000 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/?p=44668 Oct 18 (Reuters) – Russia’s parliament moved swiftly to fulfil the wish of President Vladimir Putin by completing the passage of a bill that shifts Moscow’s legal stance on nuclear testing at a time of acute tension with the West. The lower house, the State Duma, on Wednesday passed the second and third readings of...

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]]> Oct 18 (Reuters) – Russia’s parliament moved swiftly to fulfil the wish of President Vladimir Putin by completing the passage of a bill that shifts Moscow’s legal stance on nuclear testing at a time of acute tension with the West.

The lower house, the State Duma, on Wednesday passed the second and third readings of a bill that revokes Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Both were passed unanimously by 415 votes to zero.

Putin urged the Duma on Oct. 5 to make the change in order to “mirror” the position of the United States, which has signed but never ratified the 1996 treaty.

Russia says it will not resume nuclear testing unless Washington does, but arms control experts are concerned it may be inching towards a test that the West would perceive as a threatening escalation in the context of the Ukraine war.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-duma-passes-law-revoke-ratification-nuclear-test-ban-treaty-2023-10-18/

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