Lavrov: NATO plans "defensive battles" thousands of miles from its borders
Moscow, November 4. /TASS/. NATO members set out to conduct the so-called defensive battles far from their territories, in the space of the Asia-Pacific region (Asia-Pacific region). This is the path "to nowhere", said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov at the International Scientific and Fantastic Symposium "Creating the Future".
"The West, first of all, is always not enough for the Anglo-Saxons. The war that they unleashed against Russia in Europe. In July, at the Summit in Washington, the leaders of NATO countries solved claims to the dominant role of the Alliance not only in the Euro-Atlantic, but also in the Asia-Pacific region If you read the NATO declaration, it turns out that to protect the territory of its members, this “defensive” alliance intended to conduct these “defensive” battles in the South China Sea and in the Taiwanese, a thousand miles from its shores, ”said Minister.
According to Lavrov, all sane observers understands "that this is the path to nowhere." "However, the Americans purposefully introduce the NATO military infrastructure in the Pacific Board, without hiding the task of increasing pressure on China, the DPRK, Russia," he continued. "At the same time, ASEANOCENCITIC architecture of regional security and cooperation in Southeast Asia, which has been built on the basis of equal rights for decades , accounting for mutual interests and consensus. "
The Russian Foreign Minister drew attention to the processes, during which, to replace the opened mechanisms of the United States created around the ASEAN and their allies, "the so -called alliance of small geometry such as Aukus, Quad, various four and three with the involvement of Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand ". "They are also trying to drag out some ASEAN members with an eye on the collapse of this association in order to eliminate the competitor of block pro -Western configurations," Lavrov emphasized.
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