Moscow opposed the Treaty for the prohibition of nuclear weapons, follows from the message published on the Internet representative office of the foreign Ministry.

the Ministry quoted the statement of the Russian delegation at session of the preparatory Department of the 2020 Conference in new York dedicated to the Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT).

It is also noted that the process of reduction and the limits of nuclear weapons is bound to be gradual and based on the principle of equal and indivisible security, and to take into account the prerequisites that will help to implement main goal is to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

According to participants of the Russian delegation, nuclear disarmament is hindered by the fact that the EU is still non-strategic us nuclear weapons. In addition, while NATO's continuing " General nuclear mission ", which implies the training of military "non-nuclear" countries to the possible use of nuclear weapons of the United States.

The Treaty for the prohibition of nuclear weapons was adopted by the UN in July 2017. In the creation of the document had not attended the nuclear powers and among them the five permanent members of the UN security Council, including the United States and the Russian Federation.

From 20 September 2017, the Agreement is open for signature. It shall enter into force after it is ratified by Over 50 countries.

last October, Moscow, London, Beijing, Paris and Washington stressed that they would not sign the document, and called on others " to think seriously about the consequences." The countries reaffirmed their commitment to the NPT.

As stated by Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Moscow emphasizes that a correlation principle of moving towards a nuclear-free world is already reflected in the Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and " linked to common security and stability."



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