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The lack of progress on nuclear disarmament – the result of a destructive and even openly hostile line of the Obama administration. As the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the criticism of the president of the United States
The Russian Foreign Ministry has officially responded to the allegations of delaying the Moscow nuclear disarmament process and the unwillingness to disarm. Previously, these statements during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, the US President Barack Obama. Answer Text Spokesman Maria Zakharova published on the site office.
It is said that in connection with the events in the Crimea and the US Ukraine itself “froze all working channels of cooperation with the Russian side, turning work of the Joint Presidential Commission and terminating the bilateral military contacts. »
« Relations between the two countries have deteriorated sharply because of the deliberate destructive actions of the United states under the pretext of “Russian aggression.” And all this is accompanied by increased anti-Russian rhetoric “, – stated in the document
Nevertheless, Russia, Zakharov wrote, is ready to carry on with the US,” a substantive discussion on strategic matters. “. “A complete discussion will be possible only if Washington will be guided by the fundamental principles of equality, mutual respect of interests and undiminished security of other states. While we do not see, “- noted Zakharov
The response also listed negative factors” military-strategic character “, which hinder negotiations on disarmament.. Among them mentioned the continuing deployment of the US missile defense system in Eastern Europe, the Pentagon’s military preparations near the Russian border, as well as the fact that “containment of Russian aggression,” called the first priority in the updated strategy for the European Command of the US armed forces.
« In addition, the current US administration launched Naib olee scale modernization of the US nuclear arsenal since the end of the cold war. The estimated costs for these purposes over the next 10 years will be about $ 350 billion, and in 30 years will exceed one trillion “-. Said in reply
The document also noted that after the START Treaty capabilities bilateral reductions of nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States will be exhausted. Therefore, it is necessary that a disarmament process joined other countries that have a military nuclear capability, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs
«We note with regret that the lack of progress on nuclear disarmament -. The result of the destructive and even openly hostile line Barak administration Obama’s Russia “, – summed up the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Speaking at a press conference after the summit on nuclear security in Washington, President Barack Obama said that Russia does not agree to the continuation of the process of nuclear disarmament.. “After we completed the work on the agreement” Start 2 “(Russian-American Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms – the new START Treaty -. RBC), we turned to the Russians with a proposal to consider the next phase of reduction of armaments” – he said at the time
However, said the US president, due to the election of Vladimir Putin as president in 2012 and “its reliance on military power rather than on the development in Russia”, he does not see it. progress, which had hoped
nuclear security Summit held in Washington on March 31 -. on 1 April. Russia refused to participate in it. In the Kremlin, the Russian president’s refusal to participate in the summit explained “deficient interaction during the preliminary study of the issues and themes of the summit.”
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