Sergey Lavrov delivers remarks at the Ministerial Meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) on Tuesday in Kazakhstan's Nur-Sultan.
Despite the destructive and ruthless impact of the coronavirus pandemic we have been fighting for almost two years, Asia has managed to maintain a positive development momentum.
"Its strong response has confirmed that the region’s total accumulated anti-crisis potential and the shared dedication to find collective solutions give us strength to confront major challenges and overcome their consequences, Lavrov said.
The geopolitical configuration remains quite complicated in the region, holding back its transition to a comprehensive multilateral cooperation and integration paradigm.
"We can see deliberate attempts to wind up the situation, to undermine the existing mechanisms of interstate interaction, with narrow-format exclusive groups and Cold War- and containment policy-style military blocs playing a role," he noted.
NATO’s recent policies can be placed on a par with the aforementioned hurdles as after Afghanistan, the North Atlantic Alliance seeks to redeploy its forces to other zones in the region, such as Central, South or Southeast Asia, while also sending flows of Afghan refugees to those regions. The alliance seems to sidestep the question of its responsibility for the consequences of its 20 years of experiments there leaving it to the international community, primarily Afghanistan’s neighbours, to deal with the problems.
Also, Lavrov thanked for supporting Russia's proposal to include another important topic on the agenda - information security. CICA can make a significant contribution to the UN efforts to agree on reliable tools for protecting the digital environment and preventing digital crime.
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