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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference on European security issues (Moscow, December 1, 2022)
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⚠️ In Europe, NATO’s members are increasingly claiming global domination. The alliance has already declared the Indo-Pacific region a zone of its responsibility.
The event that used to be called the #OSCE Ministerial Council opened in Lodz today. This is a good reason to see what role this organisation has played since its establishment.
Let’s recall the year 1990 – the anticipation of the end of the Cold War. <...> The Westerners believed that it was “the end of history”, as they said at the time. From then on, everyone would live by the rules of liberal democracy, so they could relax and promise anything. Those attractive slogans ended up hanging in the air.
⚡️ It was of principal importance to the West to show who the master of the Common European Home was – a home that all [countries] had collectively undertaken to build. Essentially, this is where the notorious concept of a “rules-based order” is rooted.
We talk about the aggression against Yugoslavia because we can still feel its effects. In March 1999, NATO, seeking to show that it can do whatever it wants, opened Pandora’s box by trampling underfoot the fundamentals of European security adopted by the OSCE <...>.
❗️ We remember the time when NATO was created. The first NATO Secretary General Hastings Ismay coined this formula: the purpose of NATO is “to keep the Soviet Union out [of Europe], the Americans in, and the Germans down.” What is happening now is nothing short of a return to the alliance’s conceptual priorities from 73 years ago.
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👉 As a result of all this, the security space in Europe became fragmented, and even the OSCE is becoming a marginal entity, to put it mildly.
❗️ When, or if, the West realises the benefits of being neighbours and relying on some kind of a mutually agreed framework, we will listen to what they have to offer.
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⚠️ In Europe, NATO’s members are increasingly claiming global domination. The alliance has already declared the Indo-Pacific region a zone of its responsibility.
The event that used to be called the #OSCE Ministerial Council opened in Lodz today. This is a good reason to see what role this organisation has played since its establishment.
Let’s recall the year 1990 – the anticipation of the end of the Cold War. <...> The Westerners believed that it was “the end of history”, as they said at the time. From then on, everyone would live by the rules of liberal democracy, so they could relax and promise anything. Those attractive slogans ended up hanging in the air.
⚡️ It was of principal importance to the West to show who the master of the Common European Home was – a home that all [countries] had collectively undertaken to build. Essentially, this is where the notorious concept of a “rules-based order” is rooted.
We talk about the aggression against Yugoslavia because we can still feel its effects. In March 1999, NATO, seeking to show that it can do whatever it wants, opened Pandora’s box by trampling underfoot the fundamentals of European security adopted by the OSCE <...>.
❗️ We remember the time when NATO was created. The first NATO Secretary General Hastings Ismay coined this formula: the purpose of NATO is “to keep the Soviet Union out [of Europe], the Americans in, and the Germans down.” What is happening now is nothing short of a return to the alliance’s conceptual priorities from 73 years ago.
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👉 As a result of all this, the security space in Europe became fragmented, and even the OSCE is becoming a marginal entity, to put it mildly.
❗️ When, or if, the West realises the benefits of being neighbours and relying on some kind of a mutually agreed framework, we will listen to what they have to offer.