Lavrov warns West of “decisive response” to any aggression against Moscow
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov greets delegates as he chairs a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., July 16, 2024. — Reuters
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the West on Saturday that any aggression against Moscow would face a “decisive reaction”, while cautioning against targeting aircraft in the Russian airspace and accusing Germany of “militant rhetoric”.
As Russia’s wrath in Ukraine, tensions have increased in the eastern part of NATO in recent weeks as Estonia said Moscow sent three fighter jets to its airspace and NATO fighter jets shot the Russian drone on Poland.
He told the UN General Assembly, “Any aggression against my country will be fulfilled in a decisive response. There should be no doubt among the people of NATO and the European Union who are telling their voters that war with Russia is inevitable.”
During the attack on Russian airspace there are countries in Eastern Europe, where Russia is considered to be the greatest threat since the end of the Cold War. Hopes have diminished any close end of the Moscow war in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump said this week that he supported the idea of shooting Russian jets violating NATO air space, a part of a rhetoric change that made him mocked in Russia’s military performance in Ukraine and called it a paper tiger.
Lavrov eliminated Trump’s recent remarks during a press conference after his General Assembly speech, but issued a warning about any action against the aircraft inside Russia.
“If there are any effort to reduce anything in our airspace, anything, I think people will be very sorry for such a violation of our territorial integrity and sovereignty,” he said.
He said only “politically blind” would expect Ukraine to return to the borders one day before Russia invaded Russia in February 2022, indirectly reacting to Trump’s claim that Kiev could take away all its occupied land from Russia.
Lavrov also told German Chancellor Frederick Murz in the same way, citing that what he said was “militant rhetoric” and said Moscow was afraid of the World War III’s “potential scenario” from the remarks of politicians in the European Union and NATO capitals.
Russia hopes ‘Frank dialog’
Despite the purpose of the NATO and the European Union, Lavrov made it clear that Moscow has hoped about the “Frank Dialogue” with the United States under Trump, despite the recent US president’s recent change.
He said the United States and Russia will hold a third round of talks to improve each other’s embassy operations in the coming months, which have been strictly prevented for a decade of diplomatic extraction and other prevention for a decade.
Lavrov called on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday at the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly.
Lavrov said he did not see the economic relations between Russia and India as a threat, as Trump has imposed taxes on Indian products, and has demanded China to stop buying Russian oil.
Moscow is concerned over US construction near Venezuela
Despite his cautious tone about Trump, Lavrov expressed alarm over US naval construction and military action in international waters around Venezuela to counter drug cartels, calling the situation “extremely serious”.
Without the name of the United States, Lavrov questioned whether “some creative actors” could try to use a UN Security Council proposed draft to create a major international force to fight groups in Haiti to justify the attack inside Venezuela.
The United States and Panama have pushed forward the text of the draft through the 15 -member body. It needs at least nine votes and there is no veto to pass through Russia, China, the United States, France or the United Kingdom.
“I cannot reject that some creative actors can think of getting a mandate in the Security Council, and later say that there are groups from Haiti in Venezuela. I cannot reject it,” said Lavrov.
