Thread: Medvedev Warns of ‘Full-Blown Wars’ including nuclear war

Medvedev Warns of ‘Full-Blown Wars’



Military intervention in the sovereign affairs of other states may lead to outright war, including nuclear war, Medvedev said

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13:49 17/05/2012
ST. PETERSBURG, May 17 (RIA Novosti)

Tags: G8, Arkady Dvorkovich, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Saint Petersburg

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Military intervention in the sovereign affairs of other states may lead to outright war, including nuclear war, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.

“The introduction of all sorts of collective sanctions bypassing international institutions does not improve the situation in the world while reckless military operations in foreign states usually end up with radicals coming to power,” he told an international legal forum in St. Petersburg.

“At some point such actions, which undermine state sovereignty, may well end in a full-blown regional war and even - I’m not trying to spook anyone - the use of nuclear weapons,” he said.
The right of nations to choose their own path of development is a universal value, he said referring to the situation in Syria and the Middle East as a whole ahead of a G8 summit.

A Kremlin aide said earlier on Thursday the Group of Eight industrial nations meeting outside Washington on May 18-19 will begin with talks on Syria and Iran.

Dmitry Medvedev, who is attending the meeting instead of President Vladimir Putin, will hold bilateral talks with U.S. President Barack Obama, Arkady Dvorkovich said.

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