US State Department spokesman Jen Psaki said that US diplomats do not agree with the assessments of their Russian colleagues, who believe that the United States has violated the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
"The deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons on the territories of our NATO allies is consistent with the NPT. These weapons remain under U.S. control at all times and are never transferred. Additionally, NPT Articles I and II do not prohibit these types of nuclear basing or planning arrangements, which had been in place before the NPT entered into force in 1970," TASS cited her as saying.
Psaki noted that "the issue was fully addressed when the treaty was negotiated." According to her, the arrangements were made clear to delegations and were made public.
