Eurasian security framework faces threats from NATO, warns Russia FM
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says NATO is intervening in efforts to create a Eurasian security framework that would rival the US-led military alliance.
"NATO will interfere with such fair processes (the formation of a security architecture in Eurasia), but they have no alternatives," Lavrov said after meeting his counterparts from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)'s member states in the Kazakh city of Almaty on Friday.
Lavrov added that the six-nation CSTO "agrees with the need to form security architecture in Eurasia."
“Eurasian security faces threats from many different directions, although the main source of these threats is NATO's aggressive behavior," Lavrov said, adding the US-led alliance “wants to privatize and become the sole guarantor of stability in our vast region.”
His remarks came as Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that "the time has come to discuss collective security guarantees in Eurasia."
It is also necessary to "limit the presence of extra-regional military forces there," the Russian leader said.
According to his remarks, the future security architecture would be open even to NATO members.
Russia, along with its allies in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS, wants to have serious UN talks on indivisible security.
"Russia is interested in the dialogue on creating an indivisible security system being seriously developed at the UN,'' Putin said.
That came amid growing tensions between NATO and Russia over the war in Ukraine.
In February 2022, Russia launched what it called a special military operation in Ukraine partly to prevent NATO’s eastward expansion after warning that the military alliance was following an “aggressive line” against Moscow.
The Western countries have been fueling the flames of the war with their unchecked delivery of weapons to Ukraine.
Moscow has repeatedly warned that such a flow of weapons to Kiev will only prolong the conflict.
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