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Gorbachev slams Trump's 'lack of wisdom' over nuclear treaty plan

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AFP Moscow
Last Updated : Oct 21 2018 | 7:35 PM IST

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Sunday slammed as unwise a decision by US President Donald Trump to quit a nuclear arms treaty he signed with the late Ronald Reagan in 1987.

"Is it really so hard to understand that dropping these agreements... shows a lack of wisdom?" 87-year-old Gorbachev said in an interview with Interfax news agency.

"Getting rid of the treaty is a mistake," he said, stressing that officials "absolutely must not tear up old agreements on disarmament."

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First Published: Oct 21 2018 | 7:35 PM IST

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