MOSCOW, December 6. /TASS/. Russia does not think that resolution of the Ukrainian crisis is sole purview of Moscow and Washington, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson.
"The Europeans whisper to each other that it is not for Vladimir Zelensky to dictate the terms of the deal - it's for the U.S. and Russia. I don't think we should be presenting our relations as two guys decide for everybody. Not at all. It is not our style. We prefer the manners which dominate in BRICS, in Shanghai Cooperation Organization, where the UN Charter principle of sovereign equality of states is really embodied. The U.S. is not used to respect sovereign equality of states," Lavrov said.
"When the U.S. says we cannot allow Russia to win on Ukraine because this would undermine our rules-based world order. And rules-based world order is American domination. Now, by the way, NATO, at least under Biden administration, is eyeing the entire Eurasian continent," Lavrov noted.
"Indo-Pacific strategies, South China Sea, East China Sea, is already on NATO agenda. NATO is moving infrastructure there. AUKUS, building ‘quartet’ Indo-Pacific Four as they call it (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea). U.S., South Korea, and Japan are building military alliance with some nuclear components," he added.
Lavrov noted that in 2023, after the summit then-Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the Atlantic security is indivisible from "Indo-Pacific security."
"When he was asked does it mean that you go beyond territorial defense, he answered - no, it doesn't go beyond territorial defense, but to defend our territory, we need to be present there. This element of preemption is more and more present," Lavrov stressed.