Lavrov: The birth of "NATO Asia" is near The Russian Foreign Minister announced that the plan to establish an organization similar to NATO in Asia has been under consideration for a long time and its name has even been decided. "Indo-Pacific Treaty Organization". In a speech delivered at the Eurasian Security Conference in Belarus, Sergey Lavrov, who criticized the positions of Western countries regarding the war in Ukraine, emphasized that Moscow is not looking for a temporary ceasefire and wants to eliminate the roots of the crisis. In another part of his statement, Lavrov considered the eastward expansion of NATO as a violation of previous guarantees regarding common security and claimed that the West had prepared the ground for war against this country despite the agreements made within the framework of European security, especially through the expansion of NATO and with the aim of restraining Russia. He also described the developments in Ukraine in 2014 as an "illegal coup" and claimed that the Kiev-based government came to power through such a coup. - Link.

Lavrov: The birth of "NATO Asia" is near The Russian Foreign Minister announced that the plan to establish an organization similar to NATO in Asia has been under consideration for a long time and its name has even been decided. "Indo-Pacific Treaty Organization". In a speech delivered at the Eurasian Security Conference in Belarus, Sergey Lavrov, who criticized the positions of Western countries regarding the war in Ukraine, emphasized that Moscow is not looking for a temporary ceasefire and wants to eliminate the roots of the crisis. In another part of his statement, Lavrov considered the eastward expansion of NATO as a violation of previous guarantees regarding common security and claimed that the West had prepared the ground for war against this country despite the agreements made within the framework of European security, especially through the expansion of NATO and with the aim of restraining Russia. He also described the developments in Ukraine in 2014 as an "illegal coup" and claimed that the Kiev-based government came to power through such a coup. - Link.