MOSCOW, Dec 8 The US and its NATO allies want Ultimately, at any cost, weaken or destroy Russia, as well as break the security architecture in Eurasia as a whole, said Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
«The long-term goal of the United States and its NATO allies is the weakening or destruction of our country at any cost, as well as the destruction of the security architecture in Eurasia as a whole,» Patrushev said Thursday in Thailand during talks with the Secretary General of the National Security Council of this country, Supot Malaniyom. Patrushev's words are quoted by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The interlocutors, in particular, exchanged views on security issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
«The West has staked on the globalization of NATO and has begun conditions for a comprehensive build-up of military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The Anglo-Saxon Union AUKUS, in particular, is focused on solving this problem,» Patrushev said.
«In this context, I would like to emphasize that the aggressive expansion of the military infrastructure in the region leads to a further increase in tension,» he added.
The same was discussed at the meeting of the Russian-Thai interdepartmental working group on security issues held on Thursday.
«We see that Washington's main task is to destroy or reduce the efficiency of the ASEAN-centric formats and create mechanisms for regional cooperation on an anti-Russian and anti-Chinese basis,» Alexander Venediktov, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, said at a meeting, also quoted by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Against the backdrop of the crisis processes provoked by Westerners, terrorist and extremist threats continue to grow in the world, directly related to the spread of radical ideologies, including aggressive nationalism and neo-Nazism, Venediktov noted. Bangkok meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Minister of Thailand by Rule Wongsuwan.