Russia is to be authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons to defend a member-state of the CSTO, said Leonid Ivashov, president of Geopolitical Science Academy.
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Russia to Be Sanctioned to Use Nuclear Weapons to Defend CSTO Members
Russia is to be authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons to defend a member-state of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). For this purpose, the necessary amendments are to be introduced to the Treaty, said Leonid Ivashov, president of Geopolitical Science Academy.
“Russia’s nuclear doctrine for tactical nuclear weapons should be extended to all states of CSTO as the deterrence guarantee,” Ivashov said during the round table in Moscow. Russia is to be given the chance to use tactical nuclear weapons to defend the CSTO member-state should there be the threat of attack, the political analysts explained.
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tadjikistan and Uzbekistan are the CSTO members.
“It is necessary to amend the Collective Security Treaty, at least Clause 4 of it. It sheepishly spells out that, in case of any aggression upon the CSTO member-state, the remaining countries will provide possible assistance, including the military one,” Ivashov explained, pointing out that the wording of this clause should be of “exact, military and strategic and allied” nature.
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