UN Dec 14 The West, raising NATO's right to enlargement to the absolute, put Europe on the brink of confrontation, from which the whole world could blaze, Russian Permanent Representative to the organization Vasily Nebenzya said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. trust in international institutions, in international law, and in the UN-centric model of the world as such.
«And this has not been happening since February 2022. It is obvious that today the issue of the future of the world order is being decided. The fork in the road is clear: either this is an order with one hegemon that establishes rules that are beneficial only to him, or it will be a democratic, multipolar, fair, UN-centric world without blackmail , domination, intimidation of objectionable and neo-colonialism,» Nebenzya said.
According to him, «it is obvious that those who are the main beneficiaries of the moribund system do not like it.» Trying to revive the unipolar model under the slogan of «order based on rules,» the West is imposing dividing lines everywhere, trying to extend its sphere of influence to all new regions of the world, the permanent representative said. «The Ukrainian crisis, which the collective West is trying in every possible way to reduce to the beginning of our special military operation, is just one of the elements of this multidimensional crisis, to which the world has been moving for a long time. And this is a systemic crisis, the prerequisites for which were formed gradually over two to three decades,» he said. Nebenzya.
«By elevating NATO's right to enlargement to the detriment of the principle of indivisibility of security, Western countries have brought the European continent closer to the brink of confrontation, from which the whole world could blaze,» he said.
According to Nebenzya, today NATO pretends to global coverage, the West did not want to conduct a meaningful dialogue on the eve of the crisis, just as it does not want to conduct it now. «Today, the bet is on the attrition and strategic defeat of Russia. If someone believes that this began in February of this year, he is mistaken,» the permanent representative said.