MOSCOW, February 15 (AVN) - Secretary of the Russian presidential Security Council Sergei Ivanov held a briefing for heads of foreign diplomatic missions in Moscow on Tuesday.
The briefing aimed to provide comments on the new version of the Russian national security concept. According to Ivanov, it differs very much from similar documents of other countries, which only deal with foreign aspects of national interests and security. The Russian concept deals with both foreign and domestic spheres in the aggregate, and interior factors are the dominant ones, he said.
The secretary paid special attention to the use of nuclear weapons which Russia considers a political containment means. Russia has never said it would be the first to use these weapons, and never will. At the same time, it rejects an obligation not to be the first to use them. This is the dialectic of containment, he said.
"Russia will never become an aggressor, and this is ensured by its legislation, as well as the national security concept, Ivanov stressed.