It is bad when one of those who can influence world processes decides not to help the relationship of friendship, but to undermine its prospects and impose enmity.
About this in an interview for the information and educational lesson “Talk about the important” dedicated to the topic “Russia and the Peace”, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The text of the interview is published on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
According to him, “now we are all thinking about what is happening around Ukraine” and “Decades ago, American political scientists and politicians, in particular, a former adviser to the US President in National Security (in 1977-1981) Zbignnev Brzezinsky directly declared the task of preventing the task Friendship between Russia and Ukraine in any circumstances. “
“He literally said the following: Russia with Ukraine is a great power, Russia without Ukraine is not a very noticeable regional player. Cynically, arrogantly, frankly. We see how much the political goal set by the United States is directed against the development of friendship. disappeared, ”said Lavrov.
“The Americans were never sincere, – the Foreign Minister continued.” Even when, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it seemed that relations between the United States and our country gain new qualities. From that time they began to conduct a course to ensure that if not To allow, to weaken the friendly relations between the Russian Federation and other former Soviet Union republics as much as possible. They made an enemy from Ukraine instead of encouraging friendship that always underlyed relations between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, starting from the 17th century, when the Pereyaslav Rada has visited the reunification of our countries and peoples. The West did not suit this. “