New York (UN). April 5. INTERFAX - Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, stated Russia's concern about the current state of the arms control system.
"Recently, the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability has been of increasing concern. The arms control system, which traditionally plays the role of a central supporting structure in these issues, is experiencing a crisis, the scale of which has no precedent in recent history," the Russian diplomat said, speaking at a session of the UN disarmament commission.
According to him, "this is largely due to the destructive actions of the United States, which aggressively tried to achieve a decisive military-strategic advantage."
As examples of these actions, he called the deployment of the global missile defense system in various regions of the world, the deployment of American non-strategic nuclear weapons on the territory of non-nuclear European countries.
"It is necessary to stop this practice, return nuclear weapons to the national territory of its owner, and eliminate the infrastructure for their deployment in Europe," Polyansky stressed.
Polyansky noted that the situation around the creation of the AUKUS partnership by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States is also of concern, "including from the point of view of its negative impact on the nuclear nonproliferation regime."
"We believe that this partnership provokes tension in the field of international security, creates prerequisites for the beginning of a new round of the arms race, and not only in the Asia-Pacific region," the diplomat said.
He said that Russia "regretfully states" that some Western politicians claim the alleged possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia during a special military operation in Ukraine.
"These stuffing do not have the slightest rational basis, they are aimed at whipping up a degree of anti-Russian hysteria and are designed for the public who are not familiar with the basics of Russian security and defense policy, which is purely defensive in nature," said the first deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation.
He also drew attention to the fact that Russia continues to observe a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range ground-based missiles (INF), and stressed: "Its future fate will, of course, directly depend on the scale and content of those actions to build up forces and means on our western borders and the supply of weapons to the current Ukrainian authorities, which are NATO countries they are taking steps now."
He called on Washington to "show prudence" and abandon the ongoing plans to deploy ground-based INF in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
