Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking on September 25 at the UN General Assembly, commented on the creation of a tripartite association of the United States, Great Britain and Australia Aukus. In his opinion, the appearance of the defense alliance led by the United States was a reaction to the EU’s desire (EU) to autonomy against the background of hasty exit from Afghanistan. His words lead “Izvestia”.
“The plant” of the order based on the rules “, instead of unconditional compliance with international law, is fraught with hazardous recurrences of block policies, creating dividing lines between the Western Group and the rest of the states,” the diplomat said.
According to him, many media regarded the supply of submarines to Australia as a response to conversations about the “strategic autonomy” of Europe, which were intensified after the hasty exit of the United States from Afghanistan. “The situation of chaos, who created around this outlook, is also an illustration of those rules, in which the West would like to build their own world orders,” Lavrov added.
Earlier in China, they said they were preparing to apply nuclear weapons to fight back to new alliances that form the United States, including Aukus. China’s former ambassador to UN Sha Tzukan said that it was time to “revise and adjust” a long-standing obligation not to apply nuclear strikes first, since the military presence of the states increases.