The “deputy” of Russian diplomacy guaranteed that he had expressed “Russia’s commitment to the treaty and to the strengthening of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.”
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The Russian Foreign Ministry affirmed this Thursday that Moscow remains committed to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and to strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
According to a statement from Moscow diplomacy cited by the Russian TASS agency, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Riabkov, met this Thursday with Robert Floyd, executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, after expressing “Russia’s commitment to the treaty and to strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime.”
The Russian Ministry highlighted that the parties discussed Moscow’s interaction with the Preparatory Commission of the Treaty, including with regard to the creation in Russia of a segment of the International Monitoring System, which is “a key component of the verification mechanism” of the treaty.
The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was created in New York in 1996 with the main task of facilitating the entry into force of the Treaty that binds 44 States, including Russia, and the establishment of a verification mechanism with a view to prohibiting nuclear explosions anywhere, above or below ground and in waterbeing an essential component of the international framework for disarmament and nuclear arms control.
Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world and has been at war with Ukraine since the invasion of the neighboring country on February 24, 2022, which was condemned by most of the international community.
During the past year, Moscow did not use this type of weapons in the conflictbut Moscow moved part of its arsenal to Belarus, an ally of Moscow and neighboring Ukraine and NATO countries such as Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
Dmitri Medvedev frequently raises the possibility of resorting to nuclear weaponsformer Russian president and current vice president of the Russian Security Council, as a threat to Western countries that provide military support to kyiv.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory has plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since the Second World War (1939-1945).
Source: Observadora
