The West has repeatedly spurned Moscow’s offers to discuss “security guarantees” on the continent, the Russian Foreign Minister has said
Moscow harbors no aggressive plans toward its Western EU and NATO neighbors, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has assured.
Addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the official dismissed claims made by certain European officials, according to whom the Kremlin considers attacking NATO in the coming years.
”Russia has not had such intentions,” Lavrov insisted, echoing President Vladimir Putin, who previously described such speculations as “nonsense.”
According to the official, Moscow has repeatedly offered NATO member states to work out “legally binding security guarantees” in Europe, but the West has ignored these overtures.
The Russian diplomat expressed concern over the fact that certain EU and NATO officials “are beginning to seriously talk about a third world war as a potential scenario.” He accused Western powers of seeking to impose their unipolar approaches on the entire global community while ignoring other nations’ legitimate interests.
Lavrov also stated that the Russian military never intentionally launches kamikaze drones or missiles toward NATO member states.
Earlier this month, Poland accused Russia of sending a volley of unmanned aerial vehicles into its airspace – an allegation Moscow has denied.
According to subsequent media reports, the drones may have been decoys that strayed off course due to electronic warfare measures.
