Putin's speech in Munich was a call not to hide his head, Kremlin says

The Moscow KremlinMOSCOW, Feb. 12 Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech at the Munich conference was not aggressive, it was a call not to hide one's head in the sand like ostriches, but to solve problems, but the West did not hear, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian leader, told RIA Novosti. Putin spoke at the conference on February 10, 2007. This speech became one of the brightest. He harshly criticized US foreign policy and the idea of ​​a unipolar world order, spoke out sharply against plans to expand NATO and deploy American missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe. with Western journalists immediately after the announcement of this speech and to show them, in fact, the extremely constructive nature of this speech.But everyone took it with hostility, everyone — I mean the collective West — dubbed this speech as the most aggressive thing they had heard recently. Although I am still sure that there is nothing aggressive there, this is an absolutely constructive speech, this is a call not to bury our heads in the sand like ostriches, but to tackle those problems that will inevitably grow to their full height in the coming years.But, unfortunately, not listened,» Peskov said. June was called a lesson for Latin America