Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during the 30th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, Skopje, November 30, 2023
...Acting within the military-political basket, participating states adopted a number of fundamental documents aimed at creating a Europe without dividing lines in the broadest sense of the term, and emphasising the unacceptability of enhancing one’s own security at the expense of the security of others. These documents include the Charter of Paris for a New Europe (1990), the Charter for European Security (1999), and the Astana Declaration (2010)...
"A segurança de uns não pode ser à custa da segurança de outros."
Os EUA não podem usar a Europa como plataforma para colocar certos tipos de sistemas estratégicos que criam um tipo de ameaça que a Rússia não pode replicar.
A Rússia tem estado a assinalar que não o vai permitir e que irá usar a força se necessário. Os politicos europeus estão a permitir que o continente europeu seja usado para medição de forças entre americanos e russos, o que conduzirá inevitavelmente à destruição do nosso modo de vida, para não dizer algo pior. Bem pior.
...Western political elites appropriated the role of rulers of humanity’s destiny and made a shortsighted choice in favour of NATO rather than the OSCE. They embraced a philosophy of containment, geopolitical zero-sum games, and the leader-follower logic. The bloc’s reckless expansion to the East, which started after the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation, was a key component of this approach...
... NATO and EU member states have destroyed the military-political dimension of the OSCE. In 1999, NATO committed an act of an unabashed and violent aggression against Yugoslavia, a member of the OSCE and the UN. In 2008, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and the principle of the inviolability of borders in Europe enshrined in the Helsinki Final Act, Kosovo was separated from Serbia without a referendum.
At the 2008 Bucharest Summit, NATO countries which are also OSCE participants tempted Tbilisi and Kiev with a promise of NATO membership...
... he ordered Georgian forces to bomb the South Ossetian cities and to attack the positions of the peacekeepers stationed there with the consent of the OSCE. The United States was behind this provocation. Some time earlier, Washington launched a Georgia Train and Equip Programme which Saakashvili obediently carried out...
...I would like to once again remind you of the cynical confessions by former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, ex-President of France François Hollande and ex-President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko, who said that the purpose of the Minsk agreements was not to achieve peace in Ukraine, but to give the Kiev regime time to build up its military capability against Russia...
...At US prompting, NATO members blocked the entry in force of the CFE Treaty Adaptation Agreement and ignored Russia’s specific proposals to restore the viability of conventional arms control measures in Europe. The Americans buried the Open Skies Treaty and devalued many other fundamental documents aimed at building up trust in the area of security...
The genuine intentions of the Western politicians again revealed themselves when Washington and Brussels rejected Russia’s December 2021 proposals on legally binding security guarantees in Europe. They did not even want to talk to us.
Aqui é feito a referência ao que considero um ultimato. Nós nem quisemos falar com eles.
On January 28, 2022, I sent a message to the foreign ministers of the US and other NATO countries. I asked them to interpret the commitments assumed at the highest level within the OSCE not to enhance one’s own security at the expense of the security of others, but nobody bothered to reply to my question. Instead, they sent us empty papers from the EU’s foreign policy service and the NATO Secretary-General to which this message was not even addressed. ...
Os países receberam esta carta, Portugal incluido. Uma vez mais a Rússia queixa-se de respostas concretas à carta. Na altura, o texto da carta russa estava disponível (por opção russa) para quem quiser ler, mas a nossa resposta não (por nossa opção).
Muito diz sobre como os nossos políticos estão a tratar este assunto. Estamos alegremente a caminhar para um confronto com a Rússia.
O discurso é mais que este excerto, mas aponto aqui aquilo que tenho vindo a chamar a atenção. Estamos em rota de colisão com a Rússia e nitidamente a meu ver, estes pretendem deixar para a posteridade, para ficar registado nos livros de história, que tentaram negociar.
Penso que vou começar a virar o foco do meu blogue para algo que nunca pensei que iria fazer.
Os preparativos para a próxima grande guerra na Europa.