GERMANY: RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SERGEI IVANOV SAYS HIS COUNTRY WILL SOON BE READY WITH A NEW GENERATION OF UNIQUE NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Record ID: 920543

  • Title: GERMANY: RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SERGEI IVANOV SAYS HIS COUNTRY WILL SOON BE READY WITH A NEW GENERATION OF UNIQUE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
  • Date: 13th February 2015
  • Summary: (W3) MUNICH, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 13, 2005) (REUTERS) SLV EXTERIOR OF HOTEL BAYERISCHER HOF, VENUE OF ANNUAL MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE, SNOW FALLING; HOTEL SIGN IN SNOWFALL; SLV POLICE OFFICERS AND POLICE CARS OUTSIDE HOTEL HIGH SHOT OF CONFERENCE ROOM; CLOSE-UP OF PHOTOGRAPHER'S LENS SCU GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSCHKA FISCHER TALKING TO U.S. S
  • Embargoed: 6th July 2005 23:45
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  • Location: MUNICH, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA34TUYS5DAAALX6WZ96HG3MEK7
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: At a security conference in Munich, Russia says it is close to
    developing "unique" new nuclear arms; Germany says Iran must never 'go
    nuclear.'
    Russia will soon be ready with a "unique" new generation
    of nuclear weapons that is currently under development, Defence
    Minister Sergei Ivanov has said on Sunday (February 13, 2005).

    He said the upgrade was part of a modernisation of Russia's strategic
    arsenal in which it was aiming for quality, not quantity.

    "We already see, we have every reason to believe it will be a
    unique system, not possessed by any country in the world," Ivanov told
    journalists at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

    At the same conference, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
    said it would be very difficult for U.N. peacekeepers to replace U.S.-led
    troops at some stage in Iraq, but he did not rule it out.

    Asked if security operations in Iraq could eventually be transferred to
    the U.N.'s blue-helmeted peacekeepers, Annan said this posed a "real
    problem".

    "Will the U.N. get the right troops, and the troops they need to
    go to Iraq to do the right amount of work?" he told a security conference
    in Munich, Germany.

    "You've had a very robust presence. If it is going to be followed
    by a weak, ill-equipped force, it brings its own problems. But of course if
    the (Security) Council, in its wisdom, were to decide that we go this route,
    obviously we would have to consider."
    German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer meanwhile urged Iran to
    "distance itself from further uranium enrichment and to permanently
    eliminate the risk of going nuclear."
    "The proliferation on a state level has great importance and so
    we hope that the efforts of the EU-3" (European Union members France,
    Germany and Great Britain) will succeed, Fischer said.
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