NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes that alliance alliance, including Germany, should not join the Nuclear Weapon Prohibition Treaty (DJO). He stated that “the world does not become safe.” His words lead RIA Novosti.
Stoltenberg spoke at a press conference in Brussels on the eve of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Blok in Riga on November 30 and December 1.
“We strive for the world without nuclear weapons, but for this you need to come to balanced reliable arms control. We would like to live in the world without nuclear weapons, but Russia, China, such countries as North Korea, have nuclear weapons,” – he said.
According to Stoltenberg, while the world has a nuclear weapon, the Alliance will continue to maintain nuclear deterrence. “We must perform a single front on such issues,” he stressed.
Earlier, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Anthony Guterrish stated that the level of threats to the use of nuclear weapons in the world reached its maximum for 40 years. The Secretary General noted that all over the world there are at least 14 thousand units of nuclear weapons. Its quantity decreases consistently, but the Maximum “disturbing signs of a new arms race” is noticed in the UN.