The Russian foreign Ministry has criticized Canada for refusing to issue visas to Russian experts on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Diplomats saw it as the symptoms of "Russophobic hysteria", and promised not to leave these steps unanswered.

The foreign Ministry reported that the gesture "is openly hostile in nature and contrary to the practice of conducting multilateral activities." Besides all this, the foreign Ministry condemned the attempts of Ottawa inflate "Russophobic hysteria due to domestic political considerations". "The mix parochial political scores than last years he is enthusiastically engaged in the government of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper, inappropriate and counterproductive", - told in the Ministry.

On Smolensk square among other things added that Russia is a "key partner in the fight against WMD proliferation," because "doesn't need any "mercy" from Canada". "The canadian government has arrogated to itself the right to determine who can and who cannot participate in the event. Russia, as a full participant of the expert group, no need for this in some canadian "mercy", concluded the Agency.

The security initiative in the fight against the proliferation of weapons of group destruction (PSI-th) is an international program, the purpose of which was to tighten control over the circulation of technologies related to weapons of group destruction. In the PSI-WMD 103 includes power/ the Program was created in 2003 at the suggestion of George Bush, who was then President of the United States.
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