Lavrov: risk of nuclear war exists

“The risks of nuclear war are now very significant, one cannot underestimate this danger, but there are many people who are ready to artificially inflate this threat.” This was stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

He recalled that in January of the Nuclear Five countries, the thesis about the inadmissibility of the nuclear war was overdated.

“This is our fundamental position. We come from it. And I would really not want now, when, as you said, referring to respected political scientists, when the risks are really very, very significant, I really did not want to ensure that These risks were artificially swollen, and there are a lot of people who wish there. The danger is serious, it is real, it cannot be underestimated, ”he said on the air of Channel One.