&host=www.rt.com&uri=/news/start-treaty-signing-nuclear/&via=1.1 205.128.88.11:80 (Footprint 4.8/FPMCP)&ua=CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html))
All countries’ security needs should be taken into consideration – expert
Published: 08 April, 2010, 22:05
Edited: 09 April, 2010, 11:32
TAGS: Arms, Military, Nuclear, Russia, Politics
The US should take Russia’s concerns over missile defense seriously if it wants to protect its own security interests in relation to Iran, says Tony Lloyd, chair of the Global Security and Non-proliferation.
“If we are talking about missile defense, we’ve got to take the whole world with us and part of that process is America or NATO saying to Russia ‘We recognize your security concerns, nuclear and non-nuclear,” Lloyd said.
“We’ve got to put the whole question of nuclear weapons into the very big picture of the security needs of the different nations involved.”
In the meantime, Tim Marshall, Foreign Affairs editor at Sky News says there is nothing unusual about Russia’s decision to reserve the right to pull out of the START treaty if US missile defense potential expands too far.
“Countries always make statements like that, especially countries as big as Russia and the US,” Marshall explained. “I don’t see it as being set in concrete. I think it’s a hedged bet on the side. I think it is a little warning to the Americans ‘you’ve already backed down a little bit on where you are going to put your missile defense, so we are giving you a warning that we are still saying we don’t want you to at all.”
08.04.2010, 20:25
1 comment
“Bakiyev’s criminal regime doomed” – former Kyrgyz presidentIn an interview to RT, former Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev said the end has come to Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s era, as it is a logical end for a regime that came to power thanks to a “color” revolution and based on repression. |
09.04.2010, 09:33
14 comments
Radovan Karadzic gives exclusive interview to RTAfter months of negotiations, RT has finally been allowed an interview with wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is being tried in The Hague for mass murder during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. |
This START treaty signing in that big hollywoodian show will change absolutely nothing; just associate Russia to imperialist America. What security for the whole Humanity when less than 15% of mankind still have in reserve over 3000 nuclear war-heads at their disposal to practice all the blackmail that they want. Just watch Peter Lavelle show: Armed to the teeth; concerning only conventional armaments and add WMD (80% being US & Russian made). That Obama-Medvedev dream of a nuclear free World is a joke making laugh Wall-Street and the Military Industrial Complex of both countries. It may help the democrats for the next election and bring a Nobel Peace Price for the two signing presidents. As far as the World free of nuclear arms is concerned; just keep on dreaming...What scare me the most is to know that certain less responsible nations like France with the "mentally unbalanced" Sarkozy; Israel, obsessed by Iran and Pakistan have nuclear arms; plus the fact that Iran, North-Korea, even Georgia and several other states, soon could have them. This Prague show has absolutely not decrease the insecurity. It may even have done the opposite...Sorry Future Generations...Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin