Russia refuses to attend US summit due to countries’ inequality

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov explained why Russia refused to participate in the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. As he pointed out, the main reason is that the US does not want to provide equal rights for all the members.

"Speaking about the distortion of the substance of our contacts, we now observe the attempts to delude the world public about what is happening around Russia’s non-participation in the nuclear summit in Washington," he commented on the statement of the West.

"I treat with respect the countries, which have decided to participate in the summit, but we have long and substantively explained that the format, in which it was devised, manifests the countries’ inequality in preparing final documents and the attempts to substitute both the UN, Interpol and the IAEA," TASS cited Lavrov as saying.