Former Soviet President Gorbachev: Russia and the US should establish contacts in the nuclear sphere “, Said the former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in his greeting to the ex-head of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and the participants of the conference of the Global Alliance of Leaders for Nuclear Security and a Nuclear-Free World, which was published on the website of the Gorbachev Foundation.
Gorbachev recalled that At a meeting in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin and American leader Joe Biden reaffirmed their commitment to the principle of non-nuclear war. “I hope that these negotiations will not turn into a dialogue of the deaf and will begin to yield results,” the Soviet politician emphasized.
Governments should refuse to “throw gigantic funds into the furnace of the arms race” and should establish contacts in the nuclear sphere, believes he. According to Gorbachev, the nuclear powers are aware of their responsibility to humanity and have taken the first steps in resolving the issue.
The former head of the USSR believes that the collapse of trust between the countries undermined previous efforts on the issue of disarmament. He recalled that before that, 85 percent of the weapons accumulated at the height of the Cold War had been eliminated.
In addition, he called for the demilitarization of world politics. According to Gorbachev, there can be no other goal than a world without nuclear weapons.