"The Trump administration, which advocates breaking the entire framework of nuclear disarmament, is leading the world to strategic chaos and an uncertain future," he said.
According to Gorbachev, in the face of increasing risks and the emergence of new military technologies and weapons, more efforts must be made "to firmly place nuclear disarmament on the international agenda."
“This is a problem that Russia, as a nuclear power, must urgently solve,” the ex-president of the USSR stressed.
According to him, in the modern world, the policy of competition and balance on the brink of military conflict should give way to cooperation in the economic and humanitarian fields.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the risks of a nuclear confrontation have recently increased, and the security situation is degrading.
The US President's special envoy for arms control, Marshall Billingsley, said that Russia was asked to prepare a memorandum on arms, which does not require ratification, and would later lead to a framework concept and a full-fledged multilateral treaty.
Billingsley said the future treaty should be multilateral and involve China.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov commented on the proposed US deal on the treaty on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (START).