White House says ready for dialog with Moscow on nuclear risks

TheUnited States is ready for dialog with the Russian side on the issue of nuclear risks. This was stated by John Feiner, Deputy National Security Advisor to the American President.

At the same time, the U.S. authorities are in favor of bilateral discussions with Russia and China instead of a trilateral dialog. Feiner added that the two states have different nuclear capabilities and respective doctrines.

"We feel it is better and probably more constructive and ultimately more successful to follow bilateral discussions," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying during a speech at the Carnegie Endowment think tank (listed as a foreign agent and recognized as an organization whose activities are undesirable in Russia).

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Earlier, on December 12, Russia took part in a closed-door meeting of the five nuclear powers in Dubai, where China presided. The Nuclear Five meeting was attended by representatives of the five nuclear-weapon states (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States).

On December 11, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that further cooperation on nuclear disarmament with states unfriendly to Russia had become politically unacceptable.

The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was not tightening its nuclear doctrine, but improving it. He added that the country now needs to improve the Oreshnik missile system. The head of state also noted that a sufficient number of modern weapons systems practically replace the use of nuclear weapons.

Before that, on November 30, Ryabkov said that the danger of a nuclear exchange between the United States and Russia exists, but Moscow will do everything possible to avoid it. According to him, the current geopolitical situation is characterized as extremely complex and tense.

On November 19, Putin approved an updated Russian nuclear doctrine. The updated document includes the amendments that the head of state announced in September. In particular, for the first time a definition of a potential adversary against whom Russia is conducting nuclear deterrence was introduced.