According to Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, at the SMOA Plus meeting, the United States and some unfriendly countries made politicized statements on the situation around Taiwan, Myanmar and UkraineSIEM REAP /Cambodia/, November 23.
/tass/. Washington is purposefully working to destabilize the situation in the Asia-Pacific region (APR) and destroy the security system that has developed around ASEAN. This was stated to journalists by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Fomin.
According to him, at the SMOA Plus meeting, the United States and a number of unfriendly countries made politicized statements on the situation around Taiwan, Myanmar and Ukraine.
"For our part, [we] took away in detail all the unfounded accusations made against our country, <...> voiced the facts of the purposeful work carried out by the United States and its allies to destabilize the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, destroy the security system that has developed around ASEAN, and also pointed out the similarity of the processes taking place in the Asia-Pacific region with those which led to the conflict in Ukraine," the Deputy Defense Minister said on Wednesday following a meeting of the ASEAN Defense Ministers and the SMOA Plus Dialogue Partners.
Fomin noted that the overwhelming majority of the meeting participants heard Russia's position and understood the Russian point of view. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will continue to take an active part in Meetings of Defense Ministers of ASEAN member countries and Dialogue Partners, as this allows Russia's position on key security issues to be directly communicated to the partners in the SMOA Plus.
Also, according to Fomin, an exchange of views on a wide range of topical issues of global and regional security took place at the meeting. The participants of the meeting shared their assessments of the situation on the Korean peninsula and on the fight against international terrorism, cybersecurity, and the situation in the South China Sea.
