Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said that when it comes to building a European security architecture after the end of the conflict in Ukraine, European countries cannot “cancel” the Russian Federation and abruptly stop dialogue with Russia. TASS.
If we do this, we will probably exclude both Central Asia and the South Caucasus (from this system),” he said.
The Minister also pointed out that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is the only platform outside the UN where the exchange of views between Western countries and Russia continues. According to him, this platform “we will need in the future.”
The diplomat also noted that the Russian Federation will continue to be the largest neighbor of Europe geographically and will maintain its leadership in terms of the number of nuclear warheads.
“We cannot discuss climate change or other issues without involving Russia in the discussion,” Schallenberg said.
Former Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declarationThe West “lost” Russia.
According to him, relations between the West and the Russian Federation “have not only changed radically for a long time, but have been suspended in most areas and stopped for long periods somewhere.”
Before that, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg declarationthat it is impossible to create a stable security architecture without Russia, although at the moment Europe’s intersections with it are “less than zero”.
formerly Medvedev judicial Europe is a “fantastic story.”