US President Barack Obma, British PM David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chinese President Xi Jinping, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei lavrov are attending the nuclear security summit in Hague today. Over 50 countries are taking part in the summit. Lavrov will meet foreign ministers of BRICS countries and US Secretary of State John Kerry, ITAR-TASS reports.
Piet de Klerk, spokesman of the government of Netherlands, which is responsible for the summit, said that the summit will focus on the reduction of radioactive materials usable for production of nuclear weapons and reduction of facilities stockpiling the materials, improvement of their protection and intensification of cooperation in nuclear security.
Russia has been fulfilling its international obligations for nuclear security and has joined all related legal mechanisms: the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2005) and the Nuclear Terrorism Convention.
The summit will be concluded with a communiqué on further steps towards improvement of nuclear security. It will be the third summit of its kind. The first one was organized by Washington in 2010, the second by Seoul in 2012. The UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, USA and Japan plan a special meeting to discuss Ukraine. Lavrov and Kerry will discuss the problem too.
