Africa Business News

The United States says it was disturbed by a Russian envoy’s announcement that Moscow will reverse its ratification of a 1996 treaty that banned the testing of nuclear weapons. Russia’s envoy to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Mikhail Ulyanov, says that Moscow will revoke its ratification of the pact. The announcement by Ulyanov added new fuel to tensions between the world’s largest nuclear weapons powers amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and US military support for Kyiv. Ulyanov says the aim is to be on equal footing with the US who signed the treaty but didn’t ratify it adding that revocation doesn’t mean the intention to resume nuclear tests.