Next week in Austria will take place the meeting of Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov and the special representative of the President of the United States Marshall Billingsley. Diplomats will discuss trump’s offer to conclude a trilateral nuclear agreement between Washington, Moscow and Beijing. If Russia explicitly described the conditions for the conclusion of agreements, in China’s answer to Washington’s refusal. Why the US continues to impose its idea on the contract and what to achieve, really?
A new agreement on nuclear arms control must include entire arsenals of Russia and China, said Saturday the special representative of the President of the United States Marshall Billingsley. The idea is to enter into a tripartite agreement with the US, Russia and China have repeatedly voiced by the President of the United States Donald trump and Secretary of state Mike Pompeo.
“We want to get rid of nuclear weapons we all have. Russia needs to get rid of it, China should get rid of him,” said trump in April of last year.
In Russia, called the scenario is realistic only in the “context of General and complete disarmament”.
“This is a complicated issue that still has not worked out in practical terms at the meeting place,” – said Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, adding that while the Americans only undermine the agreements in the nonproliferation or arms control.
Between Russia and the United States continues to exist, the Treaty on measures for the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (the start Treaty, the non – name- start-3), which was signed in 2010. The document is designed to 2021 year from the date of entry into force (5 February 2011), unless replaced before that date by a subsequent agreement. It can also be extended for not more than five years (until 2026) by mutual consent of the parties. If Moscow is willing to extend the start-3, Washington is inclined to termination of the contract.
China, in turn, in any negotiations on the trilateral nuclear deal does not intend to participate, which was stated foreign Ministry spokesman China Geng Shuang. He emphasized that China’s nuclear Arsenal is at the lowest appropriate level and comparable with the nuclear arsenals of USA and Russia. While China has never officially published data on the number of its nuclear warheads and their carriers. In Beijing believe that the biggest nuclear powers “should significantly reduce nuclear weapons and thereby create the conditions for other countries to join nuclear disarmament.”
In December last year the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow and Washington should agree to extend start-3 “without preconditions and artificial puffs” to reassure the international community. While ��other countries cannot be brought to the extension of the start-3, as the document was of a bilateral nature.
“however, our American colleagues speak in favor of the development of other new agreements on nuclear arms limitation. Want, in addition to Russia and the United States, this was China, but while his consent is not received. Not agreed with Britain and France, the connection of which to such negotiations, it is absolutely necessary” – stated Lavrov.
In may, Billingsley said that the main condition for the renewal of EHV-3 to become parties to the Beijing talks on the issue of arms control. At the information the American press, Billingsley will discuss the initiative of Washington Ryabkov. This meeting is scheduled for early next week in Austria.
The statement of Billingsley on Saturday responded to the Russian Ambassador in Washington Anatoly Antonov.
“the Us military plans openly aimed at deterring Russia and China. We proposed the concept of the rivalry of the great powers, in fact we are talking about a race of weapons,” Antonov said Saturday in an interview with TASS.
The diplomat stressed that the Russian side would like to avoid such developments.
As for the attraction of China to the bilateral Russian-American talks, Antonov noted that, “in principle we are not against multilateral consultations on stretchability”, but Beijing needs to solve it himself.
“In China, our position is simple and clear – China needs to decide, whether such consultations or negotiations. We make our Chinese friends will not, we will not be pushed to the right for the Americans decision,” – said the diplomat.
The Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev told RIA “news” that the tripartite agreement “will become a reality only if and only when will meet the sovereign interests of countries such as Russia and China.”
According to experts, the United States imposed the Treaty of Moscow with the participation of Beijing with the aim to reduce Russia’s nuclear potential.
“Russia may as well demand that the nuclear agreement with the United States was the nuclear arsenals of Israel, France and the UK. So the US offer is totally imaginary things that have no relationship to reality,” – said the newspaper LOOK Vice-President of the Russian Academy of rocket and artillery Sciences Konstantin Sivkov.
Unlike NATO, where there is a single nuclear planning in Russia and China are not bound by any military contracts. “In NATO besides the US include the nuclear arsenals of Britain and France. Therefore, the proposal Billingsley aims toto tear a new agreement between Washington and Moscow. To trumped-up things include the demands of the Americans to include in the agreement a new Russian system of weapons: hypersonic and unmanned underwater vehicle “Poseidon”, – the expert believes.
Such proposals, said Sivkov, it is a way to force Russia to make serious concessions.
“I hope that Russia will not yield. From a military point of view this should not happen. Russia and the US can sign a bilateral agreement and no other options can not be”, – said Sivkov.
In turn, the chief editor of the magazine “national defense” Igor Korotchenko stressed that Russia and China hold joint nuclear planning and manage its strategic weapons.
“the US Demand is unrealistic and impossible. This is an attempt by trump to play in the spirit of the unforgettable Nikita Khrushchev, that is constantly to bluff on the brink of a foul based on the fact that Washington can get something,” Korotchenko said the newspaper VIEW.
The expert added that if the “trump wants to portray itself as a political clown in the military-strategic issues, we wish him success, give him a harmonica, a shirt and let him perform the role of an American fool.”
“In such serious matters as the limitation of strategic offensive arms, America, from the point of view of expertise, is degraded below the plinth. US demand to connect China to the trilateral nuclear agreement masks the own US desire to withdraw from the Treaty start-3 under the pretext of external circumstances, to portray Moscow and Beijing opponents of strategic stability,” – says korochenko.
According to the expert, the degradation of the expertise of the United States since the arrival of trump for President.
“the United States is immersed not only into chaos from the point of view of political stability, but in the chaos from the point of view of international security. Totally irresponsible policy of the criminal and incompetent,” – says the source.
According to Korotchenko, the Russian diplomacy, “we must not hesitate to carry US face the table.”
“This country today is a threat militarily. We must firmly point this out to Americans. Do not be sentimental, today is the time for decisive and aggressive diplomacy. Now the US is going mess. It is Ukraine’s number two and we must enforce complete control over the U.S. strategic nuclear potential”, – concluded Igor korochenko.
