According to him, trying to revive the unipolar model under the slogan of “order based on rules”, the West is spreading dividing lines everywhere in the spirit of bloc confrontation: “either with us or against us.”
“Continuing the thoughtless course of expanding NATO to the east, bringing the bloc’s military infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders, the United States has now set the task of subordinating Asian spaces,” the minister said.
Lavrov recalled that at the June NATO summit in Madrid, the alliance announced its claims to the Asian region.
This, as he calls himself, "defensive" alliance proclaimed "the indivisibility of the security of the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific region."
Under the slogan of “Indo-Pacific strategies”, closed formats are being created that undermine the entire open and inclusive regional architecture that has developed around ASEAN for decades.
In addition to everything, they started playing with fire around Taiwan, promising it military support, ”the Russian minister added.
Earlier, Lavrov said that AUKUS intends to promote NATO interests in the Indo-Pacific region.