“While Russian President Putin proposes to gather the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to discuss global security issues, US President Joe Biden came up with the initiative of the so-called summit of democracy, where it is proposed to gather Washington's elected allies and from them form a certain club of the elite, or something- something like that, ”Slutsky noted.
According to him, Russia proposes to build a collective security system and form a wide range of cooperation and interaction on the Eurasian continent.
“Well, the United States is trying to create more and more new structures in the spirit of, unfortunately, confrontation, confrontation, cold war.
Let's see their Indo-Pacific structure of the Quad type or the recently created AUCUS block - all this, unfortunately, is in the spirit of non-cooperation and unification of countries that should now unite in the face of such global challenges as international terrorism and, of course, a pandemic COVID-19, "he said.
As Slutsky emphasized, Russia and the United States have different views, different systems, different approaches to global security.
“At the same time, the United States will hardly be able to seriously hinder us in our work with the countries of the Middle East, since we are truly strategic partners with them and out of respect for them, for their sovereignty, for their position, we will build this cooperation further,” - concluded the deputy.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that during negotiations with US Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland discussed issues of strategic stability with her.