Shoigu: West guilty of provoking humanitarian crises and armed conflicts
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that the West is engaged in provocations in states pursuing an independent policy, TASS reports
“The world is no longer unipolar. The dominance of the West is becoming a thing of the past. Russia, China, India, Brazil, and other countries of the Global South and East are becoming new centres of economic growth and political influence. Despite this, the West continues to act in the usual way, with sanctions pressure, blackmail and threats of force,” Mr. Shoigu noted at a plenary session of the UN Security Council’s Scientific and Expert Board.
The Russian Security Council Secretary noted that ‘illegal methods of interference in their internal affairs are being used against states pursuing independent domestic and foreign policies, humanitarian crises and military conflicts are being provoked’.
According to Mr. Shoigu, Western special services ‘carry out acts of information and psychological warfare aimed at destroying the fundamental moral and cultural norms, traditional religious standards, and the institutions of marriage and the family’.
“History is being falsified, and the revival of fascism and Nazism is being supported,” the Russian Security Council Secretary emphasised.
He added that the need to resist external pressures, threats and challenges of our time presents Russia and the countries of the global South and East with ‘the extremely important task of developing mechanisms to ensure equal and indivisible security for all states’.
“Joint efforts will enable us to provide an adequate response to the dangerous accumulation of conflict potential in various regions of the world,” Mr. Shoigu continued. “Developing co-operation with the states of the Global South and the East on the basis of mutual respect for national interests, traditions and values, independence and sovereignty of states is a priority area of Russia’s foreign policy. Economic growth, significant energy, water, and food resources, and the combined human and technological potential of the countries of the Global South and East are becoming the main factors for strengthening their security and becoming independent centres of a multipolar world.”
