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The statements were made by Dmitri Medvedev, current vice president of the Russian Security Council, through his Telegram channel. Moscow and Washington are at the lowest point in their relations since the 1962 missile crisis.
Dmitri Medvedev, former president and former prime minister of the Russian Federation and one of President Vladimir Putin’s closest collaborators, stated on Monday his country’s intentions regarding the discussion of a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty.
“Now everything is a dead zone,” he said. “We now have no relationship with the United States. They are at zero on the Kelvin scale.”
Moscow and Washington control 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads. According to the Association of American Scientists, they each have at least 4,000 in their arsenals.
In this sense, the current vice president of the Russian Security Council pointed out that “there is no need to negotiate with them (on nuclear disarmament), yet. “That is bad for Russia. Let them run or drag themselves and ask for it, ”he stressed.
Later, alluding to a historical reference, he stressed that “there is another proven method of communicating with the United States on this issue, with a shoe on the UN platform. It used to work.”
Medvedev was referring to the banging on the table, with shoe in hand, that the leader of the former Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, gave in an intervention in the General Assembly as a sign of disagreement with the criticism for “swallowing” parts of Europe of This, according to the media.
While Dmitri Medvedev was the head of state of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2012, he signed the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as ‘START’. The agreement is valid until 2026.
Russia and the United States have negotiated a series of important strategic nuclear arms reduction treaties since Ronald Reagan came to power in 1981.
The most recent invasion of Ukraine by the Eurasian nation has brought the exchange between the two to the lowest level since 1962, the year of the missile crisis that confronted the former USSR, the US and Havana.
With information from AP and Reuters
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