According to the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, the United States and its allies are trying to maintain their dominance in the world, ignoring the trends of the formation of a multipolar world TASHKENT, August 19.
/tass/. The West has unleashed a hybrid war against Russia and is teetering on the brink of an open armed conflict, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said, speaking at the 17th meeting of the secretaries of the Security Councils of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states on Friday.
The United States and its allies are trying to maintain their dominance in the world, ignoring the trends of the formation of a multipolar world. The SCO also makes a significant contribution to the construction of a new world order. The role of the organization in the world is growing, and the number of applications submitted for joining the SCO is "unprecedented".
TASS has collected the main statements of Patrushev.
The collective West has unleashed a hybrid war against Russia and is trying to "balance on the edge" between hybrid actions and an open armed conflict with the Russian Federation, for which it does not stop preparing. Instead of searching for mutually acceptable ways to dialogue, Western countries are trying to isolate Moscow. "The special military operation launched by our country in Ukraine is being used only as a pretext to unleash an unprecedented global anti-Russian campaign."
The Americans are trying to take similar actions against China, as shown by the recent US provocation in Taiwan. Washington plans to begin NATO's expansion into the Asia-Pacific region based on the potential of closed blocs - for example, AUKUS and QUAD - "to whose activities they are trying to attract the maximum number of states on an anti-Russian or anti-Chinese basis."
Terrorism is an important tool of the West "in the arsenal of hybrid wars." "Americans are fighting terrorism only in words." "Despite the significant weakening of international terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, they [the US] are changing tactics and expanding their activity in new directions."
An unprecedented number of applications have been submitted for joining the SCO and gaining observer or dialogue partner status, which indicates an increase in the role and authority of the organization in world affairs. "Today, the SCO is making a significant contribution to the construction of a new just multipolar world order."
Russia welcomes Iran's readiness to join the SCO. "We hope that during the upcoming [SCO] summit in September, a decision will be made to start the procedure for receiving Belarus."
Russia is fighting the puppet regime of Kiev. "The Ukrainian people <...> will be the main beneficiary of the defeat of the ultra-right gangs and their patrons among the Ukrainian political elite and oligarchy."
The West chose Ukraine for a reason. "Having begun the accelerated transformation of Ukraine into the so-called anti-Russia, the Anglo-Saxons set out <...> to create a precedent for further fragmentation of the Russian ethnic group with the aim of its complete eradication." However, ordinary Ukrainians have long understood that "they were simply used as a bargaining chip, a tool to deter Russia."
Westerners, like Ukrainians, have become hostages of the elites who have seized power by deception or force. "The authorities of the USA, England, and the EU countries serve multinational corporations instead of realizing national interests."
The goal is the same - to get the maximum economic benefit. "As a result, ordinary Americans and Europeans continue to suffer from inflation and socio-economic problems, which already leads to mass demonstrations and political reshuffles in the West."
The strikes on the Zaporozhye NPP are carried out by the Ukrainian side "with the filing of the Americans." Such cynical provocations are regularly organized by the United States together with its vassals. "If a man-made disaster occurs, its consequences will be felt in all corners of the world."
In Ukraine, in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the Russian Federation, the development of biological weapons components was carried out with the participation of the United States "in violation of the articles of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and toxin weapons."
It can be stated that "the United States is not going to ensure openness and verifiability with regard to the functioning of their biological laboratories on the territory of other countries."
"The formal presence of such biological objects in national ownership is insufficient for effective control over the actions of Americans, and this is confirmed by reliable information."
Russia is against the US shifting the blame for the origin of the coronavirus to other countries. "It cannot be ruled out that in this way the United States is trying to avoid responsibility, hide its role in the development of the pathogen and divert attention from its activities to increase military biological activity."
The United States and its vassals are rewriting history to justify their own foreign policy adventures. For example, Japan is "struggling to take a leading position among the world movement of Russophobes."
At commemorative events dedicated to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, Russia was accused of allegedly being ready to use nuclear weapons. "Even the UN Secretary-General [Antonio] Guterres has never mentioned that the United States is the only country that has used atomic weapons. Based on this logic, bombs on Japanese cities fell from the sky themselves. But you and I know who dropped them, and we will never forget about it."
