MINSK, October 26. /TASS/. Events in Ukraine and the volatile situation in the Middle East are the consequences of attempts by Western countries to build a world order that unfairly benefits them, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) First Deputy Secretary General Leonid Anfimov said.
"The events taking place in Ukraine and [the outbreak of yet] another Palestinian-Israeli conflict are nothing but a direct consequence of the West's non-fulfilment of the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council, and the desire to live in an illusory world that they created, in which the dominant position of a single country must serve as the basis for building a common world order for all," Anfimov said in a speech delivered in Minsk at a high-level international conference titled "Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World."
The senior CIS official stressed that "the course taken by some Western countries to destroy the fundamental norms and values of international law increases disbalances in economic development and provokes conflicts in those territories where relative peace and tranquility have been maintained by the longstanding efforts of the UN and regional international organizations." "When hotbeds of tension arise in [such regions], which could be extinguished at the local level, third forces immediately appear there, and without fail start stoking what initially was a small fire into a global-scale conflagration," he said.
"In addition, the unfolding conflict in the Middle East nourishes all manner of extremist ideology and significantly raises the threat of activating international terrorists," the senior official said, pointing to the unprecedented growth, fueled by the West, of groups motivated by "nationalist and neo-Nazi ideas" in Ukraine, "which are fully comparable with certain religious extremist groups in the scale and level of their aggression, and in some regions even surpass" the threat level posed by violent religious extremists.
"During this time, again, and not without the participation of Western, quote-unquote, partners, we have seen the formation of multi-branch extremist communities and combat units, which are already actively used to commit subversive informational and sabotage-and-terrorist actions in our countries," the deputy CIS secretary general noted.