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Russian Foreign Minister: Risks of nuclear war are ‘very significant’

The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile was test-launched at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, Russia on April 21, 2022. (Photo: Sputnik)

In an interview with the National TV channel RussiaRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, the risks of an nuclear conflict should not be underestimated. And the core of any termination agreement conflict in Ukraine will largely depend on the military situation on the ground.

According to Mr. Lavrov, nuclear war is unacceptable and the Russian Government has made great efforts to uphold the principle of preventing this danger at all costs. However, the situation is now deteriorating and at some point such a conflict will become a serious and existential threat.

Russia tried to persuade former US President Donald Trump to recommit to the 1987 declaration made by the leaders of the US and the Soviet Union that there would be no winner in a nuclear war and a nuclear war. Such war should never have happened, Mr. Lavrov commented.

While the former Trump administration refused to make a commitment, Trump’s successor, President Joe Biden, “quickly” agreed with Moscow and a statement was made during the Summit between President Donald Trump and President Trump. President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva in June 2021.

Russian Foreign Minister: The risk of nuclear war is

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (Photo: AP)

China, France and Great Britain, the remaining three nuclear powers and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, also agreed to this and issued a joint statement in January 2021.

“This is our principled stance. We start from there”Lavrov said, but said the risks of nuclear war are now “very significant”.

“I don’t want that to be overblown. There are a lot of people who want that. The risk is very serious and present. It cannot be taken lightly.”

Lavrov praised the Biden administration’s first foreign policy move as “effective and wise”. Accordingly, the US agreed with Russia that the New START Treaty should be extended unconditionally for another 5 years. It was the last remaining arms control treaty after the US withdrew from treaties such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and the Open Skies Treaty. .

The Russian foreign minister also said that while people say that World War III should not be allowed to break out, the West is still heating up the conflict by supplying Ukraine with weapons and finding ways to prolong the war to the detriment. for Russia.

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