He added Lavrov In an interview with the Russian magazine “Argumenti i-Facti”, he said, “The call to talk about strategic stability and limiting nuclear weapons without preconditions is deceptive.”
He continued: “What is meant by the phrase (without preconditions)? This means that the Americans reserve the right to declare us an enemy in their ideological documents.”
The White House said in a memo to Japan’s Nihon Hidanko, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that it was “ready to engage in talks with… Russia China and North Korea without preconditions to reduce the nuclear threat.”
The Nihon Hidanko organization won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, in recognition of its efforts in the field of combating nuclear weapons.
The Russian Foreign Minister said that the statement means that Washington reserves the right to officially announce that its goal is to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia on the battlefield.
The Russian military attack on Ukraine in 2022 and the ongoing war there sparked the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, when the Soviet Union and the United States came close to launching a nuclear war.
Moscow recently said that the war that has been going on for two and a half years in Ukraine is entering its most dangerous stage, with the advance of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, while it is studying… US Allowing Kiev to strike Russia in depth with Western missiles.
Over the past few weeks, Russia has reduced the threat level of using… Nuclear weaponsIt warned Washington and its allies that their support for Ukraine risks pushing them into a direct conflict with Moscow that could turn into a nuclear conflict.
Speaking to Argumenti i Facty magazine, the Russian Foreign Minister said that his country is following the American election campaign between Vice President, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and former President, Republican candidate, Donald Trump.
Lavrov added: “We are ready to work with any administration that the American people choose in the end, but on the condition that this is on the basis of mutual respect and equality.”
He said: “We are currently monitoring the election campaign in the United States, and at the present time we do not see any signs that we will return to talks of that kind (based on mutual respect and equality).”