Chechen Leader Calls for Complete Abandonment of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Today the situation in the world is so tense that at any moment a self-destructing global nuclear war can begin, which will destroy all life, turn our beautiful planet into nuclear ashes. The civilized community cannot allow this. Here moralizing, requests are superfluous.

In order to save humanity, I call on ordinary citizens, heads of nuclear and non-nuclear states, the UN, to achieve decisive and complete elimination of nuclear and all other types of weapons of mass destruction.

Before the Almighty and before his conscience, each person is absolutely priceless.

It is imperative to reform the UN and give it a firm right to stop wars without the consent of the belligerents by introducing international peacekeeping forces.

The UN, not nuclear weapons, should be a deterrent to war. It is this approach that may be acceptable to a civilized community.

The country that decides to be the first to abandon weapons of mass destruction and destroy them will become the most authoritative and respected country in the world.

Ahmed Malsagov, Ex-deputy of the Parliament, the First Convocation of the CRI (1991-97). Chairman of the Economics Committee, political scientist, public figure of Chechnya.