New Eurasian security framework to help resolve nuclear deadlock — Russia’s intel chief

Russian Politics & Diplomacy November 20, 12:33

"The West’s attempts to sow chaos and division only strengthen the resolve of Russia and its regional partners to restore order," Sergey Naryshkin said

MOSCOW, November 20. /TASS/. Developing the Eurasian security framework is the most effective way to break the nuclear deadlock, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Chief Sergey Naryshkin said in an interview with National Defense magazine on Wednesday.

"We are witnessing a historical surge in the Eurasian macro-region. Already, it accounts for a substantial share of global economic growth. Eurasia is home to many of the most rapidly developing non-Western centers of a multipolar world. They are united by a shared interest in stability and mutually beneficial cooperation across the continent," the SVR chief pointed out.

"The West’s attempts to sow chaos and division only strengthen the resolve of Russia and its regional partners to restore order. As it seems, building the Eurasian security framework is the most sensible solution to the nuclear deadlock that the Euro-Atlantic elites, fixated on confrontation, are pushing the world toward," Naryshkin said.

It is a well-known fact that this view is shared not only in Asia, he added.

The sensible forces remaining in Europe, who are still hesitant to call things by their proper names due to pervasive censorship, are also aware of this, the SVR chief said.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with senior Russian diplomats on June 14 that the previous Euro-Atlantic security system had collapsed and proposed building a new framework that takes into account the interests of all Eurasian states.

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