Gorbachev urges Moscow and Washington to resume talks
“We need to resume dialogue. Terminating talks was our biggest mistake," former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told RIA Novosti when he spoke in Reykjavik to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1986 Soviet-American summit.
“We need to resume dialogue. Terminating talks was our biggest mistake," former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told RIA Novosti when he spoke in Reykjavik to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1986 Soviet-American summit.
The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has urged Moscow and Washington to resume talks across the political agenda, particularly on the nuclear issue, the news agency reported yesterday according to The Moscow Times.
Gorbachev said that the world was about to cross “a dangerous line”, and that “there has been a collapse of mutual trust [between Russia and the United States.]”
“As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a risk that they could be used — by accident, via a technical failure, or though evil will of man, madmen or terrorists,” Gorbachev said.
“A nuclear-free world is not a utopia, but an imperative. Yet it can be achieved only through the demilitarization of international relations.”
A week ago The Kremlin announced that it had decided to suspend a nuclear disarmament treaty with Washington, claiming that the United States’ “unfriendly actions” posed a “strategic threat to stability.”