Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that his country is seeking security guarantees that will be common for Moscow, Kiev, and all of Europe.
In an interview with RT, the top Russian diplomat said Moscow has been subjected to unprecedented pressure by Western states.
Among other things, Lavrov spoke about the ongoing Russian military operation in Ukraine.
“The goal is to demilitarize Ukraine so that such a threat does not come from Ukrainian territory, as well as to obtain security guarantees that will be based on the principle of indivisible common security for Ukraine, for Russia, for all European countries, we have been proposing this for many years”, he said.
Lavrov expressed hope that the current “abnormal” situation between Russia and Ukraine will be resolved, but warned that the West is going to prevent this from happening.
“I am sure that the historical closeness of the two fraternal peoples will prevail”, he stressed.
Elaborating on the influence that Western countries have on Ukraine, Lavrov pointed at the allegations of biological weapons being created in the Eastern European country under US supervision.
“From the Pentagon’s point of view, Ukraine is perhaps the largest project that manages the activities of these laboratories”, the Russian foreign minister said, speaking about the biological laboratories in Ukraine, which, according to findings by the Russian Foreign Ministry, were funded by Washington to work on various infections, viruses, and potentially bioweapons.
Lavrov estimated that the United States is seeking a unipolar world where every country will obey the strongest one. Such a view envisages no global village, the Russian foreign minister outlined; it would rather be “an American village”.
He said that Washington has managed to “mobilize” the world based on American interests – something that, Lavrov believes, points to the actual scale of “independence” of the European Union and NATO members.
However, not everyone is ready to agree with that, according to Lavrov.
“There are players who would never accept the global village under an American sheriff”, he said. “China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico – I am sure that these countries do not want to just be in a position when Uncle Sam orders them [to do] something and they say ‘yes sir'”.
Russia, he said, is also “not in the category of countries who would be ready to do so”.
Source: Agencies
