
Europe may try to derail a future dialogue between Russia and the United States on strategic stability issues due to the Ukrainian crisis, SIPRI expert Laura Saalman said at the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing.
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The statements were made at the Xiangshan Security Forum in Beijing by SIPRI Senior Research Fellow Laura Saalman.
Europe may hinder the dialogue between the Russian Federation and the United States on issues of strategic stability, Laura Saalman, a senior researcher at the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told RIA Novosti.
"When I participated in the Xiangshan Security Forum, I noticed that many European experts argued that Europe faces various challenges and conflicts. They did not talk about arms control, but rather about deterrence," Saalman said.
She noted that deterrence has become a fairly broad concept, for example, everyone knows that France has attracted a number of countries, including Finland, to participate in its nuclear deterrence initiative.
“I think that some European experts are concerned about the possible continuation of this trend. For example, if the United States and Russia want to negotiate and participate in some kind of dialogue on stability issues in the future, Europe may intervene or disrupt their discussions,” the analyst said.
In her opinion, Europeans do not want to support Russia's participation in this kind of dialogue against the backdrop of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis.

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