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International arms control at a 'crossroads' over nuclear threats

Despite his concerns about Russia and China and the "unraveling" of the international arms controls regimes the world has long depended on, the NATO chief emphasized the need to negotiate new arms control arrangements.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg rebuked Russia and China over global arms control.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg rebuked Russia and China over global arms control. (AN/Artur Voznenko/Unsplash)

A day after the Group of 20 issued a similar warning, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described the nonproliferation agenda as weak and crumbling.

"This is a deeply challenging period – for arms control and for our security in general," Stoltenberg told a conference on arms control on Tuesday where he described Russia and China as dangerously irrresponsible nuclear-armed powers.

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