New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday stated that Moscow has by no means engaged in taking part in one nation in opposition to one other however it’s “being tried by some other outside players” within the context of so-called Indo- Pacific technique.
“We never engage in playing any country against any other country but this is, unfortunately, being tried by some other outside players in the context of so-called Indo- Pacific strategy, using Quad, not for economical purpose but trying to militarise it,” Lavrov stated.
It is pertinent to say that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, referred to as the Quad, is a strategic safety dialogue between Australia, India, Japan and the United States.
“The idea promoted by our American friends of ASEAN plus Quad is openly aimed at ruining East Asia Summits. In other words it means East Asia Summits minus China and Russia,” Lavrov stated in a dialogue with Observer Research Foundation.
Talking about Russia’s relations with India and China, Lavrov stated that he had good relations with each international locations. He additional said that the relations with India are characterised in offical paperwork signed by the 2 leaders as a “specially privileged strategic partnership” which is the one standing that was given to every other on paper.
“We are interested in these two (India-China) great nations to be friends. It was the initiative of my predecessor to create trioka of Russia, China and India which culminated in the BRICS formation. My feeling is that the more they meet, the better,” Lavrov added.
Talking in regards to the negotiation with Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Minister stated, “Everyone’s asking when Russia is ready to negotiate. Nobody asks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when he’s going to negotiate. Last year, Zelenskyy signed a document making it a criminal offence to negotiate with Russia as long as Putin is present. Can you ask him what he’s doing?”Lavrov additionally talked about NATO and the struggle. He stated that Ukraine had stated earlier that they won’t develop NATO however then they modified their phrases.
“Ukraine legally cancelled the MINSK agreement, which is a series of agreements sought to end the Donbas war fought between armed Russian separatist groups and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, that has to do with the Russian language. And when the people who did not accept the coup in the east of Ukraine and in Crimea said, guys, leave us alone, we are not going to follow your policies,” Lavrov stated.
“And it is the regime that started the war against these people. That’s why the Minsk agreements were considered the way to stop this. And it was not very difficult to implement the Minsk agreements. It was about the special status of a small part of the east of Ukraine, much smaller than the territory which is controlled by the Russian army now, much smaller. But they didn’t want to do this because the special status to be given to this small territory included the right to use the Russian language. And this in itself was considered a taboo by the Narcist, who took the power in Ukraine through a coup,” he added. (ANI)