RUSSIA URGING REVISION OF WESTERN STEREOTYPES OF GUARANTEEING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

RUSSIA URGING REVISION OF WESTERN STEREOTYPES OF GUARANTEEING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

the 44th Munich Conference on Security Policy in Munich/EPARussia urges a revision of western stereotypes of guaranteeing international security. This is what the Russian delegation to the Munich conference on security policy is oriented to, says the Chairman of the Russian Duma International Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev. The Voice of Russia has the details.

Today is the first day of the Munich forum, attended by over 320 politicians, statesmen, scientists and businessmen from 50 countries, including the First Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Ivanov and Duma deputy Konstantin Kosachev. According to the Russian MP, the importance of the conference for Russia is that it should help break the US and NATO’s monopoly on the vision of the way the world security system should be built.

The position of Russia’s delegation actually coincides with what President Vladimir Putin told this country’s State Council in the Moscow Kremlin on Friday. He said that Russia is a country that will always and everywhere defend its national interests firmly, perseveringly and consistently.

Russia is rich in mineral resources, hence the increasingly often recurrences of the western policy of restraining this country; a policy that’s more often than not based on the wish to impose unfair competition and ensure access to the Russian resources. Russia is going to oppose these efforts by sticking to its position and showing restraint, without allowing to be drawn into confrontation. But those who choose not to see Russia as an equal partner are launching another spiral of the arms race, — a point that Vladimir Putin made during his Friday’s speech.

It is not us who is starting all this, Vladimir Putin says. The better developed nations rely on their technological advantages to channel billions upon billions into developing defensive and offensive systems of a new generation. We have done away with out military bases in Cuba and Vietnam, only to see more US bases in Romania, Bulgaria, a likely new positioning area in Poland and its elements in the Czech Republic. We are actually faced with the need to retaliate, to make relevant decisions. But Russia will always be in a position to meet these new challenges.

Moscow comes up with its own pragmatic policy to counteract the West’s policy of restraint. The stand Russia has taken on the situation helps this country retain its international image of a reliable and conscientious partner in settling any global problems.