Lavrov called European security organizations a thing of the past

The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO), the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have no prospects and are becoming a thing of the past. This was announced on February 9 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"And all these organizations — and NATO, with its unfulfilled promises made to the Soviet Union, not to expand eastward. And the European Union, which destroyed the entire rich infrastructure of cooperation with our country, and even more so the OSCE, which completely submitted to the unilateral actions of the West and forgot about the fundamental principle of consensus, the consent of all its participants. They are, in general, getting out of date," Lavrov said in an interview for the international network TV BRICS.

He also noted the increased interest in Russia's initiative to create a Eurasian security structure in which all countries of the continent would participate. According to him, such an organization can rely on the partnership formed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

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Russia once again pointed to the crisis of the organization and the role of the West in fomenting it.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said on the same day that the militarization of NATO countries was inextricably linked to the demonization of Russia's image. According to the deputy Foreign Minister, anti-Russian rhetoric is used by Western elites as a universal justification for internal problems.

On February 6, Lavrov said that Western countries, after the start of a special military operation, had made subordination of the OSCE to the interests of a hybrid war against the Russian Federation one of their key goals.

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