Russia's announcement that it will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus shows that a Russia-China joint statement days earlier amounted to "empty promises," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement came just days after Russia and China jointly declared countries should not deploy nuclear weapons outside their borders, Stoltenberg told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels. He said this showed such statements are "empty promises" and that "what we need to watch closely is what Russia is doing." To read the original story by Reuters, click here.
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