Because of nuclear weapons: Baerbock and US Secretary of State raise allegations against Russia - "Brutally injured"
Created: 2022-08-02 05:14
By: Patrick Mayer, Andreas Schmid
At the UN, Federal Foreign Minister Baerbock and US Secretary of State Blinken address Russia about nuclear weapons.
The news ticker on the diplomatic negotiations in the Ukraine war.
Serious allegations against
Moscow
: US Secretary of State Blinken addresses Russia again.
After the end of the
Russian blockade
: the first grain ship leaves the port of Odessa.
This
news ticker on the diplomatic negotiations in the Ukraine war
is continuously updated.
Update from August 1, 10:40 p.m .:
In an interview, Polish President Andrzej Duda attacked former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) because of her dealings with Moscow ruler Vladimir Putin.
Poland also has something to criticize about Germany when it comes to the exchange of armored rings with the Ukraine.
Russia's nuclear threats: Clear criticism from Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens)
Update from August 1, 8:20 p.m .:
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has sharply condemned Russia’s nuclear threats to the United Nations and campaigned for the disarmament of nuclear weapons.
Russia has repeatedly used "reckless nuclear rhetoric" jeopardizing efforts of the past 50 years to contain nuclear weapons, she said Monday in her speech at the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
With Ukraine, Russia attacked a country without nuclear weapons, "brutally violating" earlier assurances.
Despite the heightened threat situation, Baerbock advocated concrete disarmament steps.
"I am here to defend the rules-based international order," she said.
"There is a lot at stake for us and for future generations." For her, the goal of the conference is a commitment to the principles of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
For more than 50 years, the agreement has formed the basis for controlling the approximately 13,000 nuclear weapons worldwide.
It states that only the US, Russia, China, France and the UK can have nuclear weapons.
The four other suspected nuclear powers India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea have either not joined the treaty or have withdrawn from it.
The aim of the treaty is to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, promote nuclear disarmament and promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Federal Foreign Minister: Annalena Baerbock from the Greens, here in New York in front of the United Nations.
© Britta Pedersen/dpa
Serious allegations against Moscow: US Secretary of State Blinken addresses Russia again
Update from August 1, 7:30 p.m .:
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused Russia of using its nuclear weapons for ruthless threats of war.
Earlier statements by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin that military aid could have unprecedented consequences for Ukraine are "dangerous nuclear saber-rattling," said Blinken on Monday at the start of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in New York.
The statements are contrary to international agreements.
“There is no place in our world for nuclear deterrence based on force and intimidation or blackmail.
We must stand together to reject this.”
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The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which is more than 50 years old and to which 191 countries have joined, forms the basis for nuclear disarmament worldwide.
It states that only the US, Russia, China, France and the UK can possess nuclear weapons.
The four other suspected nuclear powers India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea have either not joined the treaty or have withdrawn from it.
The aim of the treaty is to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, promote nuclear disarmament and promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Blinken said the United States would only consider using nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the United States, its allies and partners.
After the end of the Russian blockade: the first grain ship leaves the port of Odessa
Update from August 1, 6:30 p.m .:
After the end of the Russian blockade in the Black Sea, a first grain ship left the port of Odessa in Ukraine.
According to the ARD “Tagesschau”, the ship is to bring 26,000 tons of corn to Lebanon, where the hunger crisis had recently worsened as a result of the blockade.
The ships that are now sailing would be checked in Turkey to prevent any arms smuggling.
The deliveries were made possible by separate agreements between the warring parties and the United Nations (UN) and Turkey.
According to Ukrainian government information, the country with its approximately 44 million inhabitants intends to ship 15 million tons of grain by the end of the year.
Millions of Ukrainians earn their living in agriculture.
Former Kremlin Special Envoy Anatoly Chubais (left) with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
The officer is now in the hospital.
© IMAGO/Russian Look (archive photo)
Anatoly Chubais: suspected poisoning - arms and legs "lamed"
First report from August 1st:
Moscow/Cagliari – fuss about a former Putin confidante.
Anatoly Chubais resigned as a Kremlin official after the start of the Ukraine war.
He is now in a hospital in Italy.
According to a report in the Italian daily
La Repubblica
, Chubais is being treated in a clinic on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, where he is said to have previously been on vacation.
A suspicion of poisoning is being investigated.
At the weekend there were first reports that Chubais had been taken to an intensive care unit.
Russian presenter and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, citing Chubais' family, said he was in "unstable condition".
Specifically: “He got sick.
His arms and legs suddenly became paralyzed.” According to Sobchak, the room in which Chubais last stayed was examined by “specialists in protective chemical suits”.
These descriptions sparked speculation on social networks that the former confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin might have been poisoned.
The
Repubblica
also wrote that a suspected poisoning was being investigated.
A possible cause of Tschubais' malaise could also be a rare nervous disease, it said.
Anatoly Chubais
Chubais was "Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation" - and thus a direct confidant of Putin.
He took over the post in 2020. He resigned at the end of March this year – around a month after Russia invaded Ukraine.
According to media reports, he did not agree with Putin's war.
At the time, the Kremlin only said that Chubais had left “at his own request”.
In the past there have been repeated cases of opponents of the Kremlin being poisoned - including the well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who barely survived an assassination attempt with the nerve agent Novichok in 2020.
Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Jarmysch now commented directly on the sick Chubais: "So that's the Kremlin's reputation: nobody has any major doubts that Chubais was poisoned," she wrote on Twitter.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by the state agency Interfax as follows: "Of course this is sad news, we wish him a speedy recovery."
Ukraine negotiations: grain blockade ended
In the meantime, there was an initial agreement in the negotiations on the Ukraine war: the grain blockade is passé.
For the first time since the beginning of the war, a ship with grain left the port of Odessa.
A cargo ship loaded with corn left for Lebanon on Monday.
An agreement on grain exports had previously been negotiated with the help of Turkey and the United Nations.
"That's pretty positive," said Kremlin spokesman Peskov.
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