Moscow expects that the approval of the joint statement of the leaders of five nuclear powers – Russia, the USA, Great Britain, France and China will contribute to a decrease in the level of international tension. So the publication of the statement explained the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharov, the press service of the department reports.
Diplomat noted that the application was prepared on the initiative of Moscow. “His promulgation was supposed to be implemented in binding to the beginning of the conference on the consideration of the Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. It should have been opened in New York on January 4, but was postponed due to the deterioration of the epidemiological situation in the United States. Nevertheless, given the importance and Self-sufficiency of this joint statement, nuclear powers decided not to postpone its publication, “Zakharov added.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, in turn, stressed that a published statement does not exclude the need for a summit of permanent members of the UN Security Council (that is, five nuclear powers), RIA Novosti reports.
As noted in a statement, the leaders of the nuclear “five”, the atomic weapon should serve exceptionally defensive goals and be directed only to the containment of aggression of all players in the international arena. “We believe that the further spread of such weapons must be prevented … In a nuclear war there can be no winners, and it should never be untied,” the statement said, published on the Kremlin website on January 3.