TOKYO (Sputnik) – Russia and Japan are concerned over US plans to deploy nuclear weapons abroad, Russian Security Council Secretary spokesman Evgeny Anoshin said Thursday.
The fourth round of consultations on security issues between Russia and Japan between Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and Japanese National Security Secretary Syotaro Yati were held in Tokyo.
“The [two secretaries] expressed their concern over US plans to deploy nuclear weapons abroad, including in Europe,” Anoshin told RIA Novosti.
On Tuesday, German media reported that the United States would deploy 20 next-generation nuclear weapons to the Buechel military air base in western Germany, according to information retrieved from a line item in the 2015 US budget.
The Russian Foreign Ministry warned that if the United States stationed B61-12 guided nuclear bombs in Germany it would violate the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT).
The NPT Treaty has been ratified by some 191 states, including Japan, Russia and the United States, and entered into force in 1970.
