Italian President Sergio Mattarella
was in Hiroshima on Saturday as part of his State visit to Japan
and criticised the language that has been used by Russia in
relation to the possible use of nuclear weapons.
"The Russian Federation... has become the promoter of a renewed
and dangerous nuclear narrative, in addition to blocking the
work of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, withdrawing from
ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and
threatening Ukraine, instilling the unacceptable idea that
nuclear weapons can become an ordinary tool in conflict
management as if they would not inevitably lead to total
destruction," Mattarella said during a meeting with survivors of
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.
"Strategic dialogue has, so far, prevented a new nuclear
holocaust.
"It is necessary to prevent the logic of confrontation from
leading to paths that are only harbingers of unspeakable
suffering, mourning and destruction.
"Threats are multiplying, with the development of arsenals whose
only justification appears to be aggression and domination and
not defence".
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