Rede des russischen Außenministers Sergei Lawrow bei der OSZE-Konferenz in Malta, 5.12.2024 (engl. Original)
Ladies and gentlemen, [...] Life has shown that for NATO and the EU, the Helsinki principles are a valueless scrap of paper. They consider it a burden to respect and apply them, while forcing others to fulfil them, selectively, but only to the extent that suits the West and its interests. Declaring Russia a threat and pursuing Russophobic policies is now seen as an absolution for the most egregious violations of international law. […]
The question is: what for? The answer is clear: to satisfy the desire to bring NATO back to the political centre stage. After the disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan, they needed a new enemy to coalesce around. As a result, we saw a reincarnation of the Cold War, only this time with a much greater risk of it evolving into a hot phase. Borders wrapped in barbed wire, anti-tank ditches, standing in line for the right to have foreign troops (preferably American) deployed on one’s territory is the perfect image of security for those who declared themselves “frontline states” fighting against the “Russian threat.” […]
The Western countries, the Chairmanship, the Secretary General, and all OSCE institutions, which never miss an opportunity to show their concern for human rights, are keeping deathly silence while watching the Nazi regime in Kiev, which since 2017 has adopted a series of laws annihilating the Russian language in every sphere, including education, media, culture, and art, and recently outlawed the canonical UOC, do what it’s doing. This is despite the fact that Article 1 of the UN Charter requires respect for the linguistic and religious rights of every individual. But EU leaders are only saying that Zelensky’s regime is upholding “European values.” This is nothing short of handing oneself in and admitting that racism is now a “European value.” […]
The OSCE is a victim of the policy of subordinating Europe to the United States through Euro-Atlantic security concepts. NATO and Europe alone are not enough for Washington; it has now brought both the EU and the OSCE Secretariat to its heel. However, this is not the limit, either: the Biden administration is moving NATO’s infrastructure to the Asia-Pacific region, and military blocs with a nuclear component are being created there. Military exercises with NATO participation are being stepped up in the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and around the Korean Peninsula. We are witnessing a clear attempt to destabilise the entire Eurasian continent.
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