Lavrov: The West is trying to split the CSTO because it sees it as a threat to dominance
MINSK, June 20 - RIA Novosti. The West in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) sees a threat to its dominance in the international arena, in this regard, it is trying to split its ranks, as well as to separate the BRICS and the SCO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after a meeting of the heads of delegations participating in the meeting of the CSTO Council of Ministers with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
"We noted that this organization, as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, like the BRICS, are considered by the West as threats to their dominance in the international arena, as emerging centers of the future multipolar world order, in which the West sees a threat to its interests, its hegemony. And in this regard, we are also witnessing desperate, aggressive actions by the West to split the ranks of the CSTO members, as well as the ranks of the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and other structures independent of it, including attempts to resort to unscrupulous methods to drive wedges into relations between members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization,"- the Minister noted.
Lavrov pointed out that the parties had an hour and a half conversation with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, where he outlined his assessments of the situation in the world, which are in line with common actions and justify the further development of the CSTO. The participants of the meeting came to the conclusion that it is necessary to resist this pressure from the West and fully fulfill allied obligations, strengthen solidarity.
"And the President of Belarus stressed that this is required, in his opinion, which we share, not only an allied moral duty, but also purely pragmatic interests. Because, ultimately, we all live together within the framework of the CSTO, within the CIS, within the Eurasian Economic Union and, of course, within the framework of the Union State and solve our problems together. We are not going anywhere from each other," the Russian Foreign Minister concluded.
