Alexei Drobinin, head of the foreign policy planning department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that one of the tasks of the Russian diplomatic office is to prevent a nuclear conflict. This was stated in an interview with the magazine “Problems of National Strategy”. RISS.
“At the current stage, diplomacy faces a new and old task – avoiding a “head-on collision” between nuclear powers, which is fraught with the highest risks of escalation and whose probability is dramatically increased by the reckless actions of our opponents, Drobinin said.
According to him, the West is busy destroying the collective security mechanisms developed in the last century. He noted that the West’s behavior was destructive and that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) had “leaded to a deep stalemate”.
Former Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov declarationRussia is trying to solve international problems peacefully, but is faced with resistance from opponents who are not ready to abandon the unipolar world order.