According to Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the department, Russia is convinced of the need to resume the Joint Comprehensive Plan on the Iranian Nuclear Program as soon as possible
UN, August 2. /tass/. A hybrid war against Russia is fraught with a nuclear conflict, in which there can be no winners. This was stated by Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, speaking at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday at the conference of the countries participating in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
"The gross violation of the principle of equal and indivisible security as a result of the harmful expansion of the military bloc of countries claiming undivided military-strategic and geopolitical dominance provoked an acute crisis in the center of Europe," Vishnevetsky said. According to him, "a hybrid military campaign has been unleashed against Russia, which is forced to defend its legitimate right to ensure fundamental security interests, fraught with sliding into a direct armed conflict between nuclear powers."
"Russia is always committed to the noble goal of building a world free of nuclear weapons," Vishnevetsky said, noting that the Russian Federation fulfills "in full its international obligations, including under article six of the NPT." At the same time, he stressed that the positive developments that were achieved with the participation of the Russian Federation "were devalued by the US policy of ignoring Russia's red lines in the field of security." "In the current situation, the restrained, responsible behavior of nuclear powers is more important than ever. The Russian Federation firmly believes that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed," Vishnevetsky stressed.
He added that Russia is convinced of the need to resume the Joint Comprehensive Plan on the Iranian Nuclear Program as soon as possible, there is no alternative to this document. "We are convinced of the need to restore the full-fledged implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for the Settlement of the Iranian nuclear program as soon as possible. There is no alternative to this agreement," he said.
According to Vishnevetsky, Russia strongly rejects accusations of "unprovoked aggression" against Ukraine. "We would like to resolutely reject all the accusations made against us of "unprovoked aggression" against Ukraine. The regime currently ruling in Kiev came to power as a result of a coup d'etat and immediately began persecution, then an armed struggle with the Russian-speaking population of Donbass," the diplomat said. "For eight years, Ukrainian nationalists have been killing civilians in this territory with almost impunity and preparing a large-scale military invasion of the republics that actually broke away from Ukraine."
"At the same time, the Kiev authorities, having signed the Minsk agreements, which were the only way to bring peace to this land, were not even going to fulfill them," Vishnevetsky said. - The situation in Ukraine has reached its limit. Russia's actions were a forced response to the outrages that took place there. They [actions] will be brought to their logical end."
