MOSCOW, (TDI): A meeting of five nuclear-armed states is set to take place in New York within the next two weeks, according to Russian state media citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
The group includes Russia, the United States, China, France, and Britain, all of which are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Ryabkov did not specify the exact date or the level of officials who would participate in the meeting.
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This gathering comes at a crucial time, as nuclear tensions between Russia and the West have escalated significantly since the beginning of the Ukraine war.
Last month, President Vladimir Putin announced changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, indicating that Moscow would expand the scenarios that might lead it to consider the use of nuclear weapons.
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In January 2022, just weeks before Russia’s military actions in Ukraine, the “nuclear five” released a joint statement emphasizing that preventing war between nuclear powers and reducing strategic risks were their top priorities.
“We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” they stated at that time.
