Russian FM Lavrov Warns of Increased Risk of Direct Military Clash Between Nuclear Powers
10:08 24.05.2023 (Updated: 10:35 24.05.2023)
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia calls on the US and the EU to abandon unilateral forceful decisions to reduce tensions in the world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
The direct involvement of the NATO member states in the Ukrainian crisis increases the risk of a nuclear conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned.
"De jure, NATO countries are directly involved in the conflict on the side of Kiev. Such an irresponsible line significantly increases the threat of a direct military clash between nuclear powers," Lavrov said at an international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues taking place in the Moscow region.
The Russian foreign minister has further noted that Russia calls on the US and the EU to abandon unilateral forceful decisions to reduce tensions in the world.
"In the interest of reducing international tension, we call on Washington and Brussels to renounce unilateral forceful decisions, to renounce attempts to marginalize the UN and create structures of a limited composition outside it that do not have legitimacy, but claim to rule over all the rest," Lavrov pointed out.
Sergey Lavrov has also noted that Russia believes that the use of commercial satellites by the United States and other countries for military purposes is very dangerous.
"We consider use of commercial satellites by the United States and its allies for military purposes, to interfere in the internal affairs of states, and for other subversive activities an extremely dangerous trend," Lavrov said.
The militarization of outer space requires close attention, the minister added.
"Like the vast majority of countries, we call for the use of civilian space infrastructure only for declared purposes in accordance with the provisions of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty," Lavrov noted.
Apart from that, Lavrov revealed that the West has decided to deliver a fatal blow to the ASEAN-centric security architecture in this part of the world after declaring at the indivisibility of the security of the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions.
In addition to Moscow, threats and blackmail are made against most states, the minister said, noting that as part of the Indo-Pacific strategies, the US is purposefully inflaming the situation around Taiwan.
"Having proclaimed at the NATO summit in Madrid the indivisibility of the security of the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions, the West decided to deliver a fatal blow to the ASEAN-centric security architecture in this part of the world," Lavrov said.
