MOSCOW, Dec 1 NATO's reckless expansion has devalued the value Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
He explained that the OSCE was created to defuse relations between East and West, but the West's course of dominance prevented this.
«There were more and more problems, today a huge number of problems have accumulated in what is now called the OSCE. They have a deep historical projection and are rooted in the late Soviet period, the late 1980s, 1990s, when the number of missed opportunities exceeded all conceivable expectations of the most pessimistic analysts,» Lavrov said during a press conference against the backdrop of the opening of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Poland.
«This instinct, which has never disappeared from either Americans or others NATO members, explains the course towards the reckless expansion of NATO, to which has devalued the main meaning of the OSCE as a collective instrument, and devalued all those beautiful documents that have been raised in the OSCE since the 1990s,” he added. The West was not going to take any steps to turn beautiful words and commitments into real deeds. “It seems to me that it is safe to say that the West at that time subscribed to such slogans, primarily in the expectation that our country would never regain its positions either in Europe, let alone in the world,” the minister stressed.
«Many sane far-sighted politicians and political scientists said that it would be better now to abandon not only the Warsaw Pact, which had already disappeared by that time, but also NATO, and make every effort to ensure that the OSCE became a genuine bridge between the East and The West… But this did not happen, of course, the West actually sought to maintain its dominance,» Lavrov concluded.