The Federation Council voted on Wednesday to endorse a Bill rescinding the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
The upper house of the Russian parliament has revoked the ratification of a global nuclear test ban in what Moscow has described as a move to establish parity with the United States.
The vote follows a statement from Mr Putin, who warned earlier this month that Moscow could revoke its 2000 decision to ratify the Bill to “mirror” the stand taken by the US, which has signed but not ratified the nuclear test ban.The CTBT, adopted in 1996, bans all nuclear explosions anywhere in the world but the treaty was never fully implemented.
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