US and Britain threatening world peace with militarisation of Europe, blasts Russia
BRITAIN and its NATO allies are pushing the world to brink of war with the militarisation of Europe and an arms race in space, senior Russian diplomats have claimed.
By TOM BATCHELOR
Express.co.uk
Sat, Sep 24, 2016
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that the US was using the threat posed by North Korea as a “pretext” for a buildup of weapons in Asia.
And Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said efforts to reduce the number of nuclear warheads around the world would be fruitless unless the US agreed to row back on plans for a missile defence system.
The NATO alliance, Mr Ryabkov said, was encroaching on Russia’s borders and warned of “inevitable and undesirable consequences” of an escalation in hostilities in the region.
He predicted a “new arms race in space” unless relations between the two world superpowers improved.
Tensions between Moscow and the West have escalated amid a dispute with Ukraine over Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
The Brussels-based military bloc has vowed to increase its presence in the region to reassure its allies from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
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