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IANS | 26 Apr, 2022
Russias starting position is that atomic war should be unacceptable and
Moscow successfully persuaded the US and other nuclear powers to agree
on that back in January, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov outlined
in an interview.
However, he added that the situation has since deteriorated to the point where there is a real and serious threat.
Moscow
tried to persuade former US President Donald Trump to recommit to the
1987 statement by the US and Soviet leaders that there can be no winners
in a nuclear war, and that such a war should never be fought, Lavrov
explained in the interview, RT reported.
While the Trump
administration declined to do so, his successor Joe Biden "quickly"
agreed with Moscow, and the statement was made at the June 2021 summit
with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva.
China, France
and the UK -- the remaining three nuclear powers that are also permanent
members of the UN Security Council -- agreed as well, and made a joint
statement.
"This is our principled position. We start from it," Lavrov said.
However, the risks of nuclear war are now "very significant".
"I
don't want them artificially inflated. There are many who would wish
for it. The danger is serious, real. It cannot be underestimated," he
said.
Lavrov also praised as "good and wise" the Biden
administration's first foreign policy move, which was to agree with
Russia that the New Start treaty should be unconditionally extended for
five years.
On the other hand, it is the last arms control
agreement left standing, after Washington pulled out of the ABM, INF and
Open Skies treaties.
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