Russia believes that nuclear risks must be kept to a minimum

Boris Yermakov, head of the department on unpopularity nuclear weapons All nuclear powers must follow the logic set forth in official documents in order to prevent nuclear war.

Accordingly, Russian Foreign Ministry official Yermakov shared on April 30 with Russian state news agency TASS that the leading nuclear powers must adhere to the logic written in the documents that the parties have jointly developed.

The document the official referred to is a joint statement by Russia, China, Britain, the United States and France published in January of this year.

In this joint statement, the five countries, all permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, agreed that the proliferation of nuclear weapons and a nuclear war should be avoided.

“Risk nuclear war which should never break out, must be kept to a minimum, especially through preventing any armed conflict between the nuclear powers. Russia clearly adheres to this perception,” TASS quoted Yermakov as saying.

Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the West should not underestimate the risk of increasing nuclear conflict with Russia. Ukraine. The United States later said it did not believe there was a threat from Russia’s use of nuclear weapons.