The West structured its policy
according to the principle of "who's not with us is against us," and
has chosen the path of NATO expansion, he said.
UNITED
NATIONS, September 21. /TASS/. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is
seeking to recreate the Cold War-era climate, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov said on Thursday at the 72nd session of the United Nations General
Assembly.
"NATO
aspires to recreate the Cold War climate and refuses to bring to life the
principle of equal and indivisible security across the OSCE area, solemnly
declared in the 1990s," he said."
"For
the last quarter of a century, Russia, no matter the challenges it faced, made
in good faith its part of the way to eliminate the legacy of the Cold War, has
done a lot to strengthen confidence and mutual understanding in the
Euro-Atlantic region and the world," Russia’s top diplomat said.
"This,
however, has not been reciprocated by our Western partners, overexcited by the
illusion of the 'end of history' and still trying to accommodate rudimentary
institutions of block-to-block confrontation era to the modern day
realities," he continued.
The West,
in its turn, structured its policy according to the principle of "who's
not with us is against us," and has chosen "the path of reckless
eastward NATO expansion and provoking instability in the post-Soviet space and
encouraging anti-Russian sentiments," the Russian foreign minister said.
Source: ITAR-TASS 22-09-2017
