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Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister: Nuclear Arms In Post-INF Europe Would Be An “Inadequate Reaction”

Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu said that Romania is “very concerned” with the announced US withdrawal from the INF treaty and warned that stationing nuclear weapons in Europe would be an “inadequate response”, in an interview for German newspaper Die Welt.
Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister: Nuclear Arms In Post-INF Europe Would Be An “Inadequate Reaction”
Ionut Preda
12 feb. 2019, 17:03, English

Melescanu, present in Brussels for a NATO meeting, also said that the alliance would be forced to respond proportionately if Russia will refuse a dialogue on the subject of the treaty..

“If Moscow doesn’t want any type of dialogue, we will be forced to find proportionate responses. But stationing nuclear weapons in Europe would categorically be an inadequate reaction. I do not foresee something like this, not in Romania (…) I ask Russia to do everything to resume respecting the INF treaty and to save the agreement,” the minister told Die Welt.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was formally suspended on February 1, after US President Donald Trump previously announced in October 2018 that his country would withdraw from the agreement because of Russian non-compliance.