The head of the UN General Assembly said that the world is close to a nuclear conflict

The world has never been so close to a nuclear conflict since the Cuban Missile Crisis. declared in an interview with TASS, Chairman of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly Chaba Kyoryoshi.

“We have not been as close to a real nuclear conflict as we have been this year since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And I think this is a very, very serious warning to all of us. It is impossible to resort to the option of using nuclear weapons, this option should be excluded from the toolkit of member countries,” Körösi believes.

According to him, nuclear weapons should not be allowed to be used as an instrument of political pressure. “God forbid that we find ourselves in a situation where at least one nuclear strike would have been delivered,” the diplomat stressed.

UN Secretary General António Guterres has repeatedly spoken about the risks of unleashing a nuclear war. According to him, now the danger has reached unprecedented proportions since the height of the Cold War. He noted that humanity is only “one miscalculation” from a nuclear conflict. The UN Secretary General also called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the risks of nuclear war are “very significant”, but the countries of the “nuclear five” adhere to the position of the inadmissibility of the use of nuclear weapons. However, in August, the deputy head of the Russian delegation, Andrei Belousov, at the review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, admitted that in the future NATO countries could use nuclear weapons under the pretext of “threats to their own vital interests or the same interests of their allies.”

In early September, Deputy Head of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev wrote in his Telegram channel that the best guarantee for the preservation of the country is its nuclear arsenal. Also earlier in an interview with the French TV channel LCI, he meantin which case Russia can use nuclear weapons – in the case of the launch of nuclear missiles, the use of nuclear weapons, strikes against critical infrastructure that controls nuclear weapons, or other actions that threaten the existence of the state itself.