Question: We understand the difficult background against which the visit is taking place, to which millions of eyes are riveted. Previously, our integration, the Union Program, was annoying. Remember how many fakes there were. Now we are perceived as a threat. What are we going to do about it?
Sergey Lavrov: Let them invent what they consider necessary for their domestic political narrow-minded goals. They need this in order not to completely lose their positions in the international arena. We do not look back at those who proved their inadequacy, helplessness, or deliberately encouraged Nazi tendencies in Ukraine. From the very beginning of the crisis, which started after the coup in 2014, this country was considered as a springboard against Russia. Former Chancellor of Germany, A. Merkel recently admitted (if anyone needed new evidence) that the Minsk agreements, which she herself signed, were needed only to buy time and pump Ukraine with modern Western weapons. That’s it. Surrender.
Meetings of the Presidents of Russia and Belarus are regular. We have met many times this year. We hold them in special bilateral formats and “on the sidelines” of multilateral events (CIS, CSTO, EAEU, SCO). This reflects our determination (led by our leaders) to strengthen the Union State. Now the need for this has increased. We must increasingly rely solely on our own strength, on the mechanisms laid down in the 28 union programs and on additional opportunities provided to us by other integration projects in the former Soviet Union – this is the EAEU, the CIS, and we must not forget about the CSTO, which in modern conditions must strengthen its unity, strengthen solidarity in the face of the “offensive” the world order laid down in the UN Charter. They want to remake it, replace international law with “rules” invented by the West, primarily the United States, in a situation when Washington “built” the rest of the “collective West”, when Europe rapidly, before our eyes, lost its independence and can hardly claim to be a separate center of a multipolar world. Although we would like that.
We must be aware of the historical nature of the changes taking place. This is not at all about whether V.A. Zelensky will remain in power in Ukraine or not. He continues to “gush” with ideas that, in my opinion, every day more and more expose the lack of understanding of the urgency of the moment and concern for his own people. They once again reflect the Nazi, racist nature of this regime, which for many years after the coup systematically destroyed the Russian language, culture, education, and the media and regarded people in the east of their country who did not accept the unconstitutional coup as “inhumans”, as they were called by A.P. Yatsenyuk, and V.A. Zelensky – “individuals” and advised those who consider themselves part of Russian culture to get out to Russia. It was all not so long ago, long before the start of a special military operation.
The latest facts that have become available during its course unequivocally confirm that we have made, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said, a timely step, but perhaps it should have been done earlier. Plans for the use of force against Donbass have been revealed. Now the Ukrainian military openly confirms this. They also had projects for the use of armed forces against the Crimea. We know what we are talking about and what needs to be done.
Our Union State and other allies in the CIS are now facing an important task – to prevent the collapse of the world order based on international law, and to ensure that our voice (the voice of Russia, Belarus, the Union State, the CSTO, the CIS, the EAEU, the SCO) is not just heard in the international arena, but that It was the voice of equal subjects of the new multipolar world, based on the UN Charter.
A source: https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1844403/
