Diplomat: US National Security Strategy ‘saturated’ with unwillingness to talk to Russia
Anatoly Antonov noted that Russia had expected concrete and substantial ideas on arms control from the US president
MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. The language of the US National Security Strategy that covers the US strategic stability indicates an unwillingness to carry out any dialogue with Moscow, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said in his article, published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta Thursday.
"This doctrine is saturated with an unwillingness to negotiate, to carry out a dialogue on an equal footing with us, to think about the perspectives of a new, legally binding agreement to replace the New START Treaty, which the world is waiting for with such anticipation," Antonov specified.
The ambassador noted that Russia had expected concrete and substantial ideas on arms control from the US president.
"Instead, they propose to replace the New START Treaty with some expanded and transparent architecture," he added.
"The world has changed. Right now, it is naive to expect that nowadays the US will remain, just like it did in the previous century, as a ‘guiding light’ for humanity, as Henry Kissinger put it," the diplomat said, emphasizing that a strategy that is based on imposing one’s own ideas of development paths on others is unlikely to be implemented.