President Putin made the comment in a letter to participants of a conference on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is a UN-led international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote co-operation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. Commencing on August 1, the month-long UN conference is to review the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Both Russian and US leaders issued written statements as diplomats gathered for a month-long U.N. conference to review the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). It was supposed to take place in 2020 but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. “It occurs at a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the conference. “Humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.”
“We proceed from the fact that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed, and we stand for equal and indivisible security for all members of the world community,” President Putin said in the letter.
In response, US President Joe Biden said on Monday he is ready to pursue a new nuclear arms deal with Russia. “My Administration is ready to expeditiously negotiate a new arms control framework to replace New START when it expires in 2026,” Biden said. “But negotiation requires a willing partner operating in good faith. Russia should demonstrate that it is ready to resume work on nuclear arms control with the United States,” he said.
