Responding to calls to withdraw tactical nuclear weapons from Russia’s EU border, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said that Russia is open for dialogue on the issue, but it should be direct and not through the mass media.

Earlier, the foreign ministers of Poland and Sweden, Radoslav Sikorsky and Carl Bildt respectively, published an article in the New York Times where they urged Moscow to remove its nuclear weapons from the Kaliningrad Region and the Kola Peninsula. In their initiative, they have also requested that the US removes its nuclear warheads from European territory.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Moscow has been calling on other countries to make a move in this direction and to remove all tactical weapons to the countries that own them. “We have not been able to persuade our partners to at least start discussing this issue,” Lavrov told a news conference after a meeting with his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store.

Russia Today