Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lauded India and other global south countries for promoting “fair and realistic” settlement solutions for the ongoing Ukraine conflict.
He said that the proposals by the developing world are based on the understanding of the true causes and nature of ongoing developments.
“We appreciate China, Brazil, South Africa, Egypt, India and other Global South countries’ sincere interest in promoting the quest for fair and realistic settlement avenues,” Lavrov said while addressing the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security on Tuesday (local time).
“President Vladimir Putin and our country’s leadership have repeatedly spoken about this,” he said according to a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“It is critically important that the proposals coming from our friends in the developing world are based on a clear understanding of the true causes and nature of ongoing developments as fallout from the West’s efforts to undermine the principle of indivisibility and security,” Lavrov said.
At the conference, Lavrov accused the US of undermining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation (NPT-Treaty) of Nuclear Weapons through its support of Ukrainian forces in its conflict with Russia.
“The United States has ditched a number of key arms control and non-proliferation agreements. It is also feared that now it is ready to impinge upon the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, one of the core elements of the global security architecture,” he said.
The minister claimed that attempts to exclude the AUKUS military bloc from the Treaty on the NPT could jeopardize the agreement’s existence, according to the statement.
Lavrov stated that Western geopolitical engineers are directly provoking crises in various parts of the world.
“Building up their military presence near the Russian borders, the NATO members ignored for many years their promises to the Soviet leaders on the non-expansion of the alliance. They were crudely violating their commitments, assumed at the top level in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), to observe the principle of equal and indivisible security, not to enhance their own security at the expense of others and to prevent the domination of any party or organisation in Europe. The OSCE signed these commitments in Istanbul in 1999 and in Astana in 2010,” he said at the conference.
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