“I agree that the nuclear risks have recently increased substantially, that the situation in the field of security and international strategic stability is openly degrading,” he said.
According to the minister, the reasons are that the US wants to regain global dominance and achieve victory in the "rivalry of the great powers."
“They refuse the term strategic stability, call it strategic rivalry. They want to win, ”he added.
As Lavrov noted, the US “two-year refusal” to reaffirm the postulate that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and, accordingly, it should never be unleashed, is alarming.
According to him, from the early autumn of 2018, such a proposal by Russia, drawn up on paper, “lies on the American side.”
“We remind you regularly. They say that they are still considering this topic ... We will be on the topic of the inadmissibility of nuclear war, the impossibility of winning in it to promote in the context of the upcoming summit of the Five, he said.
Earlier, UN Secretary General António Guterres called on Russia and the United States to extend START III, noting that nuclear disarmament remains a key priority, and the observed risk of nuclear proliferation is worrying.
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