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Putin: Nuclear war has no winner and it should never start

2022-08-01 22:59:08Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Putin: Nuclear war has no winner and it should never start
Vladimir Putin

UN chief: The  world is just one step away from the mistake of nuclear war

"The world is one step away from devastating nuclear war and into a danger not seen since the Cold War," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned.

"We have been extremely lucky so far," Antonio Guterres said. Amid rising global tensions, "humanity is only a misunderstanding or a miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation," he declared at the opening of a conference for countries that have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The 1968 agreement was introduced after the Cuban Missile Crisis, an event often portrayed as the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. The treaty was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to more countries and to pursue the ultimate goal of complete nuclear disarmament.

Almost every nation on Earth is a signatory to the pact including the 5 largest nuclear powers. But among the few states that never signed are India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan.

Guterres said the "luck" the world has enjoyed so far in avoiding a nuclear catastrophe may not last and urged the world to renew a push to eliminate all such weapons.

"Luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict," he said.

He warned that these international tensions were "reaching new heights" - pointing specifically to the invasion of Ukraine, tensions on the Korean peninsula and the Middle East.

Putin joined the same conference as Guterres, declaring that "there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never start."

"We support equal and indivisible security for all members of the world community. Russia consistently follows the letter and spirit of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," added the head of the Kremlin.

"Our obligations under the bilateral agreements with the United States on the reduction and limitation of relevant arms have also been fully respected," he concludes.

However, Russia found itself criticized at the conference.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned what he called Russia's saber-rattling - and noted that Ukraine had surrendered its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in 1994 after receiving assurances of its future security from Russia and others.

"What message does this send to any country around the world that might think it should have nuclear weapons — to defend, to protect, to deter aggression against its sovereignty and independence?" he asked. "The worst possible message".

Today, some 13,000 nuclear weapons are thought to remain in service in the arsenals of 9 nuclear-armed states – far below the estimated 60,000 stockpiled during the mid-1980s peak.


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