Gorbachev calls for reducing risk of nuclear war

SANAA, Feb. 28 (YPA) – Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin and new US President Joe Biden to push for deeper restrictions on nuclear weapons.

“Experience has shown that it is necessary to meet and negotiate, and most importantly, to leave mutual hatred,” Gorbachev told Interfax on Saturday.

It is clear that the priority is to prevent a nuclear war. Since what is needed is to avoid this problem, it is impossible to solve it unilaterally, but we must meet and everyone must take care of it.”

Gorbachev recalled his experience in communicating with US President Ronald Reagan, noting that the latter was “conservative to the core, but he was involved in the negotiating process when he realized the magnitude of the outstanding problem.

He also expressed his conviction that Russia and the United States have “a very great experience to answer the question: What is the intent and how to reach it?”

Gorbachev said in January that it would be worthwhile for Russia to propose to the United States after Joe Biden took office to sign a declaration confirming the two countries’ rejection of a nuclear war.

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