MOSCOW. Feb 19 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow believes that in the future all members of the nuclear club - Russia, the United States, France, Great Britain and China - should join the process of reducing strategic offensive armaments.
Igor Sergeyev, presidential aide for strategic stability, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday that "questions of global strategic stability cannot be the prerogative of only Russia or the United States."
"The parameters of strategic arms limitation announced by Moscow an Washington should be taken into account by all countries, first of all nuclear," Sergeyev said. A drastic decrease in the number of nuclear warheads in Russia and the United States "provides a constructive basis for stimulating the multisided nuclear disarmament process," he noted.
"A new era is coming for relations between nuclear nations. It is time to discuss strategic stability issues in the framework of multisided mechanisms, primarily among five nuclear states included in the UN Security Council and bearing special responsibility for the prevention of a nuclear war," the aide said.
"Russia sees its major goal in maintaining the strategic balance and international security in new conditions," he stressed.
According to him, Russia considers possible deployment of weapons in space one of the major threats to strategic stability in the 21st century.
"Tests and deployment of space weapons by a large number of states potentially contributes to enhancement of conflict probability, which is not in the interests of Russia or the United States," Sergeyev said.
"Prevention of threats in space and from space is among the key spheres of the 21st century security strategy," he added.