Comments and answers to the media questions of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, following the High Plenary meeting of the Fourth (IV) Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security (Minsk, November 3, 2026) Key points: The West wants to impose its own rules over the entire Eurasian continent, including its eastern part. It said so openly. There is a lot of diplomatic work ahead of us, and developments on the ground will inevitably shape the work. Everyone is watching the developments in the crisis in Ukraine. We felt that the participants in today's fourth Minsk conference want the crisis to end as soon as possible on a just basis. Above all, it means addressing the roots of the war the West unleashed against us through the neo-Nazi regime it created. I do not see how the OSCE can be saved in the foreseeable future. For now, it remains a forum where we can voice our opinions and refute the ever-increasing stream of lies that the West spreads day after day, at every meeting. With [the draft Treaty on Eurasian Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century], we want to launch a process based on the indivisibility of security. As we understand it, the OSCE endorsed these principles in 1999 and reaffirmed them in 2010. No one should strengthen their security at the expense of others, and no country, organization or group of countries should seek dominance in any geopolitical space. The West did exactly the opposite. The Europeans are satisfied that Zelensky wants to create a pantheon of heroes, although they understand that this is another insult to the victims and winners of the Second World War and to the UN resolutions on the inadmissibility of reviving Nazism. He wants to open this pantheon of "Nazi ashes" in a holy site, the Lavra of Kiev Pechersk. If it's not Nazism, I don't know how we're supposed to talk to the Europeans.

Comments and answers to the media questions of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, following the High Plenary meeting of the Fourth (IV) Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security (Minsk, November 3, 2026) Key points: The West wants to impose its own rules over the entire Eurasian continent, including its eastern part. It said so openly. There is a lot of diplomatic work ahead of us, and developments on the ground will inevitably shape the work. Everyone is watching the developments in the crisis in Ukraine. We felt that the participants in today's fourth Minsk conference want the crisis to end as soon as possible on a just basis. Above all, it means addressing the roots of the war the West unleashed against us through the neo-Nazi regime it created. I do not see how the OSCE can be saved in the foreseeable future. For now, it remains a forum where we can voice our opinions and refute the ever-increasing stream of lies that the West spreads day after day, at every meeting. With [the draft Treaty on Eurasian Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century], we want to launch a process based on the indivisibility of security. As we understand it, the OSCE endorsed these principles in 1999 and reaffirmed them in 2010. No one should strengthen their security at the expense of others, and no country, organization or group of countries should seek dominance in any geopolitical space. The West did exactly the opposite. The Europeans are satisfied that Zelensky wants to create a pantheon of heroes, although they understand that this is another insult to the victims and winners of the Second World War and to the UN resolutions on the inadmissibility of reviving Nazism. He wants to open this pantheon of "Nazi ashes" in a holy site, the Lavra of Kiev Pechersk. If it's not Nazism, I don't know how we're supposed to talk to the Europeans.