Exit could end New START agreement

Washington's intention to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty has increased Moscow's worry over the future of another major arms reduction agreement between the two countries.

The fate of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), signed between Russia and the United States in 2010 and expected to last at least until 2021, is up in the air after Washington's statement on withdrawing from the INF Treaty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday.

"The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty has vanished and all our attempts to establish any reasonable dialogue with the United States and NATO amid the lack of the agreement have not found an echo and the INF Treaty will soon disappear while the fate of the New START Treaty is unclear," he said.