The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used his address at the General Assembly of the United Nations (UGNA) on Saturday to offer one of the strongest Moscow warnings accused in the West and accused NATO and the European Union of waging a “real war” against Russia.
Lavrov opened with radical historical references to the Second World War and positioned Russia as the heir of the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazism and defending global sovereignty. He accused the US of dismantling those post -war principles by interventions in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya and warned that the same thing happened today in the East.
While he was sentenced to Hamas on October 7, 2023, Lavrov, Lavrov said that the Israel’s campaign in Gaza came down to a “collective punishment” of citizens, where the conflict was connected to what he figured out as decades of uncontrolled Western use of violence.
Lavrov accused NATO of ignoring decades of safety obligations. He insisted that Russia has “never” had plans and did not “have” to attack NATO countries and to mention Western warnings for a Russian offensive “provocations”.
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The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on Saturday and still published one of Moscow’s strongest warnings on the West. (Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Persegramkanaal via AP)
He has selected claims of European leaders as “false images” of Moscow’s intentions, following the denominations of President Vladimir Putin that Russia intends to hit NATO or EU territory.
At the same time, Lavrov issued a direct threat and said: “Every aggression against my country will get a decisive reaction. There should be no doubt about this among those in NATO and the EU.”
The warning comes in the midst of raised tension along the eastern flank of NATO. Estonia recently accused Russian rays of violating his airspace and NATO troops shot drones on Poland. The US responded by telling the UN Security Council that “every centimeter of NATO territory would defend.” Against this background, Lavrov’s speech underlined Moscow’s efforts to frame each collision with NATO as an existential threat to Russia itself.
The timing also crosses with a shift in the American rhetoric. President Donald Trump, who earlier this week a meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy, has paved his tone on the war and told reporters that Ukraine can And should have to Reclaim all his territory.
President Trump has also embraced Stever rhetoric about the war. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty images)
That is a deviation from earlier signals of openness for negotiation, more than a month after the American and Russian officials had rare conversations in Alaska. Lavrov’s UN address seemed calibrated to combat the new line of Trump and to remind Washington that Moscow does not see the war as a distant conflict, but as a direct confrontation in which the United States were involved.
The Ukrainian President Zenskyy, in his own speech to the general meeting, warned that the failure of Russia would not unleash “the most destructive arms race ever” would be.
Lavrov strengthened his message during a press conference after the speech and responded to a question about Western calls to shoot Russian planes that can violate European airspace. He rejected Trump’s earlier remark that Russia was a ‘paper tiger’, and noted that the president had already walked back.
He then gave a grim warning: “If there are attempts to lower a flying object … About our territory, in our airspace, I think people will regret it a lot, undertake such a gross violation of our territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
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The Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zenskyy gave a warning of his own warning for the general meeting that the failure to stop Russia will now lead to ‘the most destructive arms race ever’. (Spencer Platt/Getty images)
Lavrov also focused on American sanctions on Iran, where Western efforts were exploded to restore or sharpen limitations as “illegal” and proof of what he described as Washington’s strategy of “blackmail and pressure”.
He said that the West had taken diplomatic options to breathe new life into the Nuclear deal 2015 and rejected what he called manipulations in the UN Security Council to isolate Tehran.
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In addition to Europe, Lavrov Russia portrayed as an increasing “worldwide majority” against Western dominance, pointing to Brics, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and African and Latin -American calls for greater representation at the UN Security Council.
He accused Washington of using sanctions and military blocks to preserve the hegemony, while claiming that Russia defended sovereignty for nations throughout the south.
