Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. File photoMOSCOW, April 25The United States and NATO are clearly planning to move the alliance's «defensive line» to the South China Sea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. They can say in one statement that NATO is a defensive alliance, so don't be afraid, nobody's security is threatened by NATO.And then (the head of the alliance Jens) Stoltenberg can say that NATO has a global responsibility for security around the world, including in Indo-Pacific region,” Lavrov said in the Big Game program on Channel One.Lavrov told what advice the United States and Britain give to Zelensky «That is, just like they moved the line of defense five times from the Berlin Wall after the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union — since they are a defensive alliance — to our borders and told us -» do not be afraid , it's for your safety, it doesn't mean anything» — in general, quite impolite. Making it clear that we will not decide what is needed for our security. Also, they will now move the line of defense of their «defensive alliance to the South China sea,» the minister added. He added that in line with these attempts is the creation of the AUKUS alliance, drawing Japan, South Korea and other ASEAN countries into it. Sergey Lavrov said that NATO expansion has nothing to do with the fulfillment of statutory goals, this is the development territories under the command of the United States in line with strengthening the unipolar world. «Of course, when they took Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, how can they strengthen the security of the North Atlantic Alliance, if he is a defensive Alliance? This simply shows that NATO expansion has nothing to do with the fulfillment of its statutory goals, that it is the development of territories under American command in line with strengthening and trying to perpetuate that same unipolar world,» the minister said.
Lavrov: Russia hopes the West will not send NATO troops to Ukraine «At the same time, when the United States suddenly decided that over 10 thousand kilometers away a threat to their interests arises, whether in Yugoslavia, in Iraq, or somewhere else in the Middle East, without hesitation, without any legal torment, without attempts to even look into international law and the UN Charter, troops are sent, bombing civilian objects, as was the case in Belgrade, bridges, passenger trains, a television center were bombed,» he recalled. Lavrov added that (former British Prime Minister) «Tony Blair said that this is not a television center, this is an organ of aggressive Serbian propaganda.» “About the same, I’ll note in brackets that President Macron does not give RT and Sputnik accreditation to the Elysee Palace, calling them not the media, but propaganda tools. In general, these manners, habits and manners, they sit deep,” the minister explained. also filled in on US actions in Iraq. «And this is all, I repeat, across the ocean, a threat to US security. In Kosovo, they created the largest military base in the Balkans, which no one is going to withdraw from there, and the reason was the very instability that Milosevic (Slobodan, the former president of Serbia) allegedly fomented in the region, oppressing the Kosovo-Albanian representatives,» the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry also recalled. «I emphasize once again that they consider themselves entitled to ensure their security wherever they please, we are denied the right to defend our own borders and territories where Russians live, and who … have been oppressed for many years, subjected to bombing, bullying, infringing on their rights to language, culture, traditions,» the minister concluded. /> Lavrov: NATO and the United States showed no desire to take into account the interests of Russia
