While our Senate was assured, and asserted, that such a unilateralstatement would have no bearing on U.S. defenses, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Duma formally affirmed it as part of Moscow's ratification proceedings.
Labour former minister Denis MacShane criticised the "wholly unilateral" move, announced by Commons Leader Sir George Young in a written ministerial statement earlier.
His gas strategy, published alongside the Autumn Statement, confirms that he wants to review and maybe scrap the UK's unilateral targets on reducing emissions.