Former USSR President Gorbachev considers it necessary to demilitarize world politics 
Gorbachev Foundation “greetings to the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev and the participants of the conference of the Global Alliance of Leaders for Nuclear Security and a Nuclear-Free World, called for the demilitarization of world politics.
” I am convinced that we cannot have any other goal than a world without nuclear weapons … And therefore, as long as there are forces, I will not tire of repeating: it is necessary to demilitarize world politics, international relations, political thinking, to get rid of the nuclear sword of Damocles, “the message says.
He believes that he will help to achieve this goal Any person can, be he a politician, scientist, cultural figure or an ordinary citizen. In addition, the ex-president of the USSR stressed that everything that is happening in the world at this point in time should be considered in light of the global threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
alone. Other global threats remain and even intensify – poverty and inequality, lack of water, environmental degradation and global warming, depletion of land and ocean resources, the migration crisis, “Gorbachev said.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow has no information that the United States will be the first to use nuclear weapons, but there is evidence that Washington has lowered the threshold for their use. He stressed that this creates a great deal of uncertainty about the conditions under which the application will become possible.