This is how Moscow commented on Beijing’s idea of a treaty between nuclear-armed countries, which would provide for the non-first use of nuclear weapons.
RBC recalls that the PRC came up with this idea at the end of February.
Then Sun Xiaobo, head of the arms control department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, noted that countries with the largest nuclear arsenals should negotiate and conclude agreements on the mutual non-use of nuclear weapons first.
He also invited such countries to make political statements on this matter.
The Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on this, reminded the publication that such a proposal belongs to the category of ideas that need to be considered “in the general context of military-political realities.”
Moscow also gives “absolute priority” to measures whose goal is to actually reduce confrontation between nuclear-armed countries by eliminating “fundamental contradictions in the field of security.”
A working meeting of experts from the “nuclear five” took place on February 29 in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
The event was attended by representatives of China, Russia, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, France and the USA.