By Tass
August 16, 2022:
Information Clearing House
-- "Tass"
Western countries are desperately clinging to
their "vanishing hegemony" but the unipolar
world order is becoming a thing of the past,
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his
address to the audience of the 10th Moscow
Conference on International Security on Tuesday.
The head of state noted that the West needs
conflicts in order to stay in power, so the US
and its allies are actively meddling in the
affairs of other countries, whipping up all
sorts of provocations and civil wars. The West’s
hegemony spells stagnation for the entire world.
However, it is possible to reduce tension and
overcome common threats by bolstering the system
of a modern multipolar world. Russia will
continue to take steps towards building a more
democratic world and refining the existing
mechanisms of international security.
TASS put together Putin’s key statements.
On multipolar world order
The contours of a multipolar world order are
being actively shaped. "Increasingly more
countries and peoples are choosing the path of
free sovereign development based on their
uniqueness, traditions and values."
The objective processes of shaping a
multipolar world are being "opposed by Western
globalist elites who stoke chaos by igniting old
and new conflicts and implementing the so-called
containment policy, which essentially undermines
any alternative sovereign paths of development."
The globalist elites are "at all cost, trying
to cling to hegemony that is slipping through
their fingers, and seek to keep countries and
peoples in the grip of the neocolonial order."
"Their hegemony spells stagnation for the entire
world and for all of civilization, and it
includes bigotry, cancel culture, and neoliberal
totalitarianism."
The era of a unipolar world order is
vanishing into the past. "Only by substantially
bolstering the system of a modern multipolar
world it is possible to diminish tensions
worldwide, overcome threats and risks in the
military and political sphere, increase the
level of trust between countries and ensure
their stable development."
On Ukraine
The West needs conflicts "to hold on to their
hegemony." "This is precisely why they planned
to use the people of Ukraine as cannon fodder,
implemented the ‘anti-Russia’ project, turned a
blind eye to the spread of neo-Nazi ideology, to
the mass slaughter of the Donbass residents, and
have been flooding and continue to flood the
Kiev regime with armaments, including the heavy
weapons."
Under these conditions, Russia decided to
conduct a special military operation in Ukraine
in full compliance with the UN Charter. "The
goals of this operation have been clearly
defined - it is to ensure the security of Russia
and our citizens, and the defense of the Donbass
residents from genocide."
"The situation in Ukraine testifies to US
attempts to prolong this conflict. And it acts
exactly the same way by igniting a conflict
potential in Asia, Africa and Latin America."
On West's actions
"The US and its vassals are grossly
interfering in the domestic affairs of sovereign
states. They organize provocations, state coups
and civil wars. Using threats, blackmail and
pressure, they attempt to force independent
states to bend to their will and live according
to rules that are alien to them."
The West’s goal is to "hold on to its
domination, using this model that enables it to
feed off the entire world as it has done for
centuries and such a model can only be sustained
by force."
The West brushed aside Russia’s proposals for
mutual security measures. Meanwhile, NATO is
expanding eastward, beefing up its military
infrastructure. "Verbally, it is hypocritically
explained by the necessity to bolster security
in Europe, while just the opposite is occurring
in reality."
Aggressive military political unions, such as
AUKUS (Australia, the UK and the US) are being
formed by the West in order to "spread to the
Asia-Pacific region its bloc system analogous to
NATO in Europe."
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to
Taiwan was a carefully planned provocation.
"Once again, the US deliberately attempted to
add fuel to the fire to destabilize the
situation in the Asia-Pacific region. The
American scheme with regards to Taiwan is not
just a trip by one irresponsible politician but
part of a deliberate conscious US strategy to
destabilize and sow chaos with the situation in
the region and worldwide, [this is] an obnoxious
display of disrespect to the sovereignty of
other countries and to its own international
obligations."
By acting this way, Western states attempt to
distract their citizens from critical
socio-economic problems by shifting the blame on
to Russia and China for their own failures. "The
so-called collective West is deliberately
destroying the system of European security."
On Russia's plans
Moscow and its allies will continue to
"refine the existing mechanisms of international
security together with its allies, partners and
associates and create new ones, consistently
bolstering national armed forces and other
security structures, and boosting their level of
being outfitted with modern armaments and
military equipment."
Russia will also continue to ensure its
national interests as well as the protection of
its allies, and "take other steps to build a
more democratic world."
It is necessary to "restore respect to
international law, and to its fundamental norms
and principles." It is important to bolster the
positions of the UN and other international
dialogue venues.
"The UN Security Council and the General
Assembly, as it was initially conceived, should
serve as effective instruments to decrease
international tension and prevent conflicts,
while working to guarantee reliable security and
the well-being of countries and peoples."
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