Chapter 614: The Second Round of Talks

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The first six-party talks, which were scheduled for a week, had to be concluded early because of Tchaikovsky's sudden death, and did not achieve any tangible results.

But it passed through the channels of communication between Sakhalin and Russia.

After Ivanovsky was elected secretary general, chairman and chairman of the defense committee, Sakhalin resumed bilateral negotiations with Russia.

At first Russia was very tough.

Still insisting that it would not recognize Sakhalin's independent status, and that Sakhalin would certainly not compromise, several contacts between the two sides did not progress.

In negotiations with Russia, Sakhalin is also looking for external help.

Actively communicate with the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and China, among others, and these countries will put pressure on Russia to change its attitude.

April 15th

The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 4721, which accepted 16 countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Sakhalin and Russia, as members of the United Nations.

But whether to grant Russia permanent membership of the Security Council needs to be approved by the Security Council.

The resolution was strongly opposed by Russia, citing the fact that Sakhalin was not a former Soviet republic and did not qualify for independence.

Nor is it eligible to become a Member of the United Nations.

But it is clear that Russia's opposition will not help. What's more, now Russia itself is being pinched by the throat on the point of being a permanent member of the Security Council.

Add to that the dire situation in the country.

There is simply no effective response. Sakhalin could only be seen as a Member of the United Nations and as a representative of the United Nations.

It's really a tiger falling in Pingyang.

On April 17, the UN Security Council issued a statement strongly urging Russia to accept UN General Assembly Resolution 4721 as soon as possible.

and make it a prerequisite for Russia to succeed to the permanent membership of the Security Council of the former Soviet Union.

This has undoubtedly put tremendous pressure on Russia.

And in exchange for such a result, Sakhalin also paid a big price. Originally, the principle of the United States and France was that Sakhalin should give up all strategic forces.

Including strategic bombers, nuclear submarines, missiles with a range of more than 2000 kilometers and nuclear warheads.

It's not undemanding.

But Sakhalin avoided the sharp edge of the United States and France, negotiated with Britain and China, and reached agreements with Britain and China, respectively.

Promised to reduce the strategic forces by at least 30%.

Of course, the United States and France did not agree at first, but Britain and China agreed, and Britain's attitude in particular made the United States and France have to pay attention.

After several communications, I finally reluctantly agreed.

In fact, the United States and France will agree that Sakhalin has the world's third-largest nuclear force, and whether the outside world recognizes it or not, its independence is a fact.

And with such a powerful nuclear force, even the United States has to be afraid of.

Don't dare to push Sakhalin too hard.

As the saying goes, barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes, and if Sakhalin is forced to be in a hurry, who knows what Sakhalin will do when he is ruled by the military junta?

As for how to significantly weaken Sakhalin's nuclear forces.

In fact, there are many other methods that can be used, such as through the Six-Party Talks, or in exchange for economic assistance in exchange for Sakhalin's initiative to weaken strategic forces.

Just like Ukraine.

As one of the three largest nuclear powers born after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Ukraine also threatens the national interests of the United States.

At the moment the United States is negotiating with Ukraine.

The United States mainly uses the weapon of 'economy', and Ukraine has agreed in principle to give up all its nuclear forces.

In the face of intense pressure at home and abroad, Russia's position has finally softened.

Indicates that the independence of Sakhalin can be recognized, but that the territory of Sakhalin should be limited to the former Sakhalin Oblast and Primorsky Krai.

And all strategic weapons must be handed over to Russia free of charge.

Including Kirov-class cruisers, Glorious-class cruisers, strategic bombers, strategic nuclear submarines, attack nuclear submarines, missiles with a range of more than 2000 km.

As well as all 4680 nuclear warheads.

Even if Russia has already passed the current internal and external crisis, Sakhalin will not be able to accept such conditions, not to mention that the crisis has not yet passed.

Sakhalin's negotiators forcefully refused on the spot.

He said: If Russia insists on this attitude, then there will be no basis for the two sides to continue negotiations, and there will be no need to continue negotiations.

In fact, whether Sakhalin is a state no longer needs to be recognized by Russia.

These tough words undoubtedly pricked Russia's nerves and made Russia realize the reality that they did not have much leverage.

On 27 April, the second round of the Six-Party Talks began.

The venue for the talks was in Beijing, China, and this was proposed by Sakhalin and Britain, and China naturally accepted it with pleasure and attached great importance to it.

This is a good opportunity for China to increase its international influence.

Therefore, when it was confirmed that the second round of the Six-Party Talks would be held in Beijing, the Chinese government began to actively prepare for the venue and security measures.

On the morning of the 28th, the first closed-door meeting with the participation of the six parties was held.

At the beginning of the meeting, the United States, as the initiator of the six-party talks, took a very clear position:

First of all: Russia must recognize the independent status of Sakhalin.

Secondly: Sakhalin must give up the strategic forces it has. The weapons and equipment involved will be jointly handled by the remaining five countries of the Six-Party Talks.

Russia, for its part, said it could recognize Sakhalin's independent status.

However, Sakhalin's territory can only be limited to the former Sakhalin Oblast and Primorsky Krai, and all strategic weapons must be handed over to Russia free of charge.

Prior to the closed-door meeting, representatives of Britain and France held bilateral talks.

Positions were harmonized.

Therefore, the two countries agreed that Sakhalin must reduce more than 50% of its nuclear forces, as well as all intercontinental missiles and strategic nuclear submarines.

In return, Britain and France will provide financial assistance.

China's position is similar to that of Britain and France. In fact, two days before the start of this round of six-party talks, the British delegation arrived in Beijing ahead of schedule.

He also held a meeting with the head of the Chinese delegation.

Anyway, since John?? After Major came to power, the political and economic relations between China and Britain broke the ice in an all-round way under the front bridge of Wei Xiong.

In particular, last month, the Chinese president visited the UK.

The two countries formally established the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which is the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China that China has established a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with a foreign country.

The meaning is very general.

The so-called 'strategic cooperation' refers to cooperation not only between the two countries in ordinary political and economic areas, but also in core areas such as the military.

Moreover, they have coordinated their positions on international affairs and advanced and retreated together.

Western countries are generally shocked by the establishment of such a high-level cooperation agreement between the UK and China, and some countries have even expressed opposition.

For example, the United States.

US President George W. Bush has publicly expressed his concern about the entry of Britain and China and is worried that such a relationship will jeopardize British-US relations.

But in addition to the shock, the outside world understands very well.

Because in addition to the signing of the "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership" political agreement, China and the UK have also signed a number of economic agreements.

Judging from the content of the agreement, these economic agreements will greatly promote the British economy.

Sakhalin took a positive and cooperative attitude, promising to reduce nuclear warheads by another 10 per cent, or 40 per cent, on the basis of the previous one.

But it directly rejected Russia's demands.

In the more than an hour that followed, the attitude of the Sakhalin side showed that the question of strategic forces could be discussed.

But always insisted that the territory of Sakhalin included all the lands that it now owned.

On the 29th, China, the United States, Britain, and France held a one-hour meeting without the participation of Russia and Sakhalin.

After this meeting, the content of the talks was clearly divided into three phases.

Phase I: Determination of the size of the strategic forces to be reduced in Sakhalin;

The third stage: to determine the modalities for the reduction of strategic forces.

On the afternoon of 29 July, China and Sakhalin held the first bilateral meeting of this round of talks, and in fact the so-called talks are just a formality.

The contents of the talks were discussed before the start of the current round of talks between the two countries.

With Weixiong in the middle of the mediation, there are hardly any fundamental contradictions between the two countries. But this harmony should not be too obvious at the present time.

In fact, China can be a party to the Six-Party Talks.

In addition to the fact that China borders the territory of Sakhalin and China is a permanent member of the Security Council, but also because of the request of Sakhalin, one of the countries concerned.

It was also the afternoon of the 29th

Russia and the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom, respectively, also held bilateral meetings, with the United States lasting almost two hours.

The content of the meeting is unknown.

On the morning of the 30th, the six countries held the second six-party meeting of the current round of talks, and the topic was to discuss the scale of Sakhalin's reduction of strategic forces.

At the beginning of the meeting, the head of the Russian delegation made a statement.

Sakhalin must give up all strategic weapons.

Including Kirov-class cruisers, Glorious-class cruisers, strategic bombers, strategic nuclear submarines, attack nuclear submarines, missiles with a range of more than 2000 km.

As well as all 4680 nuclear warheads.

The head of the Sakhalin delegation objected on the spot, first of all, saying that the Kirov-class cruisers, Glorious-class cruisers and attack nuclear submarines were not strategic weapons.

Missiles with a range of less than 5000 km are also not considered strategic weapons.

It is not included in the cuts.

It was then made clear that it was impossible to eliminate all strategic weapons.

The meeting lasted more than four hours, and the parties had been hopeless, bargaining, and by the time the meeting adjourned at 2 p.m., no agreement had been reached.

However, some progress has been made.

In the afternoon, the United States and China held a bilateral meeting and asked China to use geopolitical influence to increase pressure on Sakhalin.