'Don't throw baby out with bath water,' Germany tells U.S. on INF treaty


  • World
  • Tuesday, 23 Oct 2018

FILE PHOTO: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 28, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will seek NATO's help to maintain a nuclear arms treaty between Russia and the United States, and is ready to take action to force Moscow to comply with the pact, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Washington would withdraw from the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty because Russia was violating it, an accusation Moscow denies.

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