In Bolivia, the meaning of Putin's speech in Munich was called a lesson for Latin America

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the 43rd Munich Security Policy Conference at the Bayrischer Hof Hotel. File photoMONTEVIDEO, Feb 12The call for multipolarity made by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Munich Conference in 2007 was a lesson for Latin America, said Diego Pari, Bolivia's representative to the UN. «The concept of multipolarity, which Putin speaks about, is a lesson for Latin America … Conference on held in Munich in 2007 was one of the most important, it was the moment when Putin made visible what was coming — a multipolar world, a world where the point of view of the most influential country should not be established, but the collective point of view should take place , which is of interest to various countries,» he told RIA Novosti.Russia will continue to develop relations with Latin America, Lavrov said, the Paris reminded that an attempt to establish a unipolar world was made two years ago, when Bolivia experienced a coup. «External forces tried to impose their unipolar position on our country. The Bolivian people rejected these attempts in order to establish democracy and their own political and economic model. The same thing happened in Venezuela, in Cuba,» the diplomat said. February 10 marks 15 years since Putin delivered his famous speech at the Munich Security Conference. He harshly criticized US foreign policy and the idea of ​​a unipolar world order, and strongly opposed plans for NATO expansion and the deployment of American missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe.The former head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry stated the relevance of Putin's Munich speechThe issue of NATO's non-expansion to the east again came into the spotlight after Russia published draft treaties with the United States and NATO agreements on security guarantees at the end of 2021. Moscow, in particular, demanded from Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from creating military bases in post-Soviet countries. The Munich Conference was founded in 1963 as a «meeting of representatives of the defense departments» of member countries NATO. Now it is an international discussion forum for politicians, diplomats, military, businessmen, scientists and public figures from dozens of countries. The conference is traditionally held in the Bayerischer Hof hotel in the historic center of the Bavarian capital. Munich does not sign final communiqués and agreements, while the conference is an important and relatively neutral meeting and discussion place for world-class politicians and diplomats.