Lavrov: NATO aims to recreate the climate of the cold war
The Russian foreign Minister believes that the Alliance “refuses to implement the enshrined in the 90-ies of the principle of equal and indivisible security on the OSCE space”.
UN, September 21. /TASS/. The Alliance aims to recreate the climate of the cold war, refusing to follow the principle of equal and indivisible security on the OSCE space. This was stated on Thursday Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, speaking at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly.
“Over the past quarter century, our country, despite the challenges, honestly has done its part of the way to eliminate the cold war legacy, — said the Minister. — Did a lot to enhance confidence and mutual understanding in the Euro-Atlantic area and the world at large”.
“It is, however, not met with reciprocity from our Western partners,” Lavrov said.
NATO aims to recreate the climate of the cold war, refuses to implement solemnly proclaimed in the 90-ies of the last century the principle of equal and indivisible security on the OSCE space.Sergei Europeanists of foreign Affairs of Russia
In turn, the West, according to the head of the Russian foreign Ministry, has built its policies on the principle “whoever is not with us is against us”, “embarked on a reckless expansion of NATO to the East, causing instability in the former Soviet Union and encouraging anti-Russian sentiment”.