Ryabkov, Russia hopes to join the U.S. for nuclear disarmament

Zam. Minister of foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov said that Russia hopes for the review conference on the Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) to join US for the strengthening of the regime of the Treaty.
"We are approaching a very important event is the NPT review conference. It will be held in new York from 27 April to 22 may, and it would be very important to the Russian Federation and the United States were not in a jumble, and the position which would help strengthen the regime of the Treaty, "he said, reports RIA" Novosti ". Ryabkov also said, it's one of the things that he will continue to discuss in direct contact with the U.S. Secretary of state rose Gottemoeller. Before the first day of the week foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century at the Symposium on disarmament in Geneva said that the Russian authorities have committed to nuclear disarmament, clearly perform the start-3 Treaty and ready for a serious substantive discussion on the issues of nuclear disarmament without double standards. In early February, in the General statement "nuclear five" (USA, Russia, Britain, China, France) said that the conference on the Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) should establish the framework, which does not allow countries to abuse the right to withdraw from the contract. First, in the spring of 2014, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated the need to increase the responsibility for the decision to withdraw from the NPT in connection with the proposal of a number of parties of Ukraine to withdraw from the contract.


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