The Russian Security Council believes that the West threatens the Asian security structure and destabilizes the world.

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev. Photo: TASS

In his welcoming speech to foreign ambassadors attending a meeting with the Russian Security Council on May 18, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev stated that Western countries have weakened strategic stability in Europe and the Middle East, while threatening the security structure in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as destabilizing the world situation in general.

Mr. Patrushev emphasized that in the context of the emergence of new power centers, the world is becoming increasingly unstable as some countries reluctantly lose their geopolitical advantage.

These countries, according to Mr. Patrushev, by acting regardless of the interests of other countries, deliberately destroyed the system of international stability that took years to build and ignored Russia's proposals for security guarantees.

“As a result, strategic stability has been disrupted in Europe and the Middle East, and the security architecture of the Asia-Pacific region has been put at risk. The war of sanctions against Russia has seriously destabilized the economic situation around the world. Many countries are facing the risk of famine,” Patrushev said.

He recalled that Western countries have unilaterally broken off many important international treaties, including those in the field of arms control. At the same time, Patrushev added, projects that benefit certain minorities are being promoted to create closed military-political blocs in various regions of the world.

The Secretary of the Russian Security Council noted: "It is these forces that are trying to devalue the potential value of international law, in order to replace it with a kind of “rule-based order”, the rules of those who created it, and not of the world community as a whole."

In addition, the official stressed, there are still plots to weaken the important role of the United Nations and many other multilateral institutions, mainly in the field of maintaining global security and resolving conflicts. The activities of specialized and special structures within the United Nations are also being politicized.

“In such circumstances, countries that are making real efforts to ensure stability in the interests of the entire world, including Russia, propose to develop a unified agenda that is peaceful, secure, open and based on cooperation, with the ultimate goal of socio-economic development of states, improving the lives of people and building a single, indivisible international security architecture. However, this will be difficult to achieve without coordinated and synchronous actions of the entire world community,” Mr. Patrushev concluded.