{"id":54673,"date":"2019-12-14T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54673"},"modified":"2019-12-14T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:45:06","slug":"moscow-concerned-with-us-test-of-previously-banned-missile-says-russian-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54673","title":{"rendered":"Moscow concerned with US test of previously banned missile, says Russian official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i.hurimg.com\/i\/hdn\/75\/0x0\/5df3858ec03c0e29eca9292e.png\" alt=\"Russia raises concern over latest missile test by US\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/search\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>&nbsp;raised alarm on Dec. 13 over the U.S. testing of a missile which would have been banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Moscow is concerned about the test conducted by the United States of a missile previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Vladimir Yermakov, director of the Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yermakov said the test was carried out just a few months after the United States exited from the INF Treaty, which indicates that the United States had started developing weapons banned by the agreement long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Department of Defense said in a statement on Thursday that the US Air Force had conducted a flight test of a prototype conventionally-configured ground-launched ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The test missile flew over 500 km before it terminated in the open ocean, said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Soviet Union and the United States signed the INF Treaty in 1987, which prohibited possessing, developing and testing ground-launched missiles with a range of 500-5,500 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, Moscow and Washington have accused each other of violating the treaty amid increasing tensions. The two countries formally withdrew from the treaty in August. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&nbsp;raised alarm on Dec. 13 over the U.S. testing of a missile which would have been banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Moscow is concerned about the test conducted by the United States of a missile previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Vladimir Yermakov, director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}