The diplomat said about the possibility of NATO in the future to justify the use of nuclear weapons

In the future, NATO countries can be expected to justify any use of nuclear weapons. Such a statement did Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation Andrey Belousov at the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

He noted that NATO “finally secured the status of a nuclear military-political bloc.” Belousov specified that this was directly stated in the final declaration of the Alliance’s Madrid summit. He also added that American nuclear weapons are located on the territory of countries that have the status of “non-nuclear members of the bloc.”

“If we sum up all these facts, then the conclusion is that in the future NATO member states can be expected to justify any use of nuclear weapons,” Belousov said.

He clarified that the US doctrinal documents stipulate “the use of nuclear weapons under the pretext of threatening their own vital interests or the same interests of their allies.” The diplomat stressed that the fact that the United States “reserved” the use of nuclear weapons creates a “real threat of a nuclear war.”

In early August, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the US could use nuclear weapons “only under extraordinary circumstances” to protect the interests of its country and allies.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there can be no winners in a nuclear war. He stressed that such a confrontation should never be unleashed.

Prior to this, UN Secretary General António Guterres said that the danger of the use of nuclear weapons in the world had reached a level comparable to that observed at the height of the Cold War. According to him, the world’s arsenals number about 13,000 nuclear weapons, and states are investing “billions of dollars in doomsday weapons.”

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