United Nations – With the rise in new tensions between Russia and NATO forces, the best diplomat in Moscow insisted on world leaders on Saturday that his nation does not intend to attack Europe, but it will include a “decisive response” to any aggression.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Speak at the United Nations General Assembly After weeks where Unauthorized flights in NATO airspace – Blame interventions on the coalition in Russia – sparked an alert throughout Europe, especially after NATO aircraft Done aircraft on Poland Estonia said that Russian combat aircraft flew into their lands I stayed for 12 minutes.
Russia denied that its aircraft in the Astony aircraft said that the drones did not target Poland, as the Moscow ally maintained that the formulation of Ukrainian signals sent devices outside the path.
But European leaders Seeing accidents as provocative movements What is meant to NATO and clarify how the alliance will respond. The coalition warned Russia This week, NATO will use all means to defend any other airspace violations.
At the United Nations, Lavrov kept Russia facing threats.
He said: “Russia had never had no such intentions,” to attack European or NATO countries. “However, any aggression against my decisive response will be faced. There should be no doubt about this between those in NATO and the European Union.”
Lavrov spoke three years in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a war that the international community It has exhausted on a large scale.
US President Donald Trump said this week he believes that Ukraine can win all the lands it lost to Russia. He was A noticeable tone shift From a former American leader Ukraine proposed to provide some privileges It has never been able to restore all the areas that Russia occupied since the seizure of the Crimea in 2014 and The launch of a large -scale invasion in 2022.
Just three weeks ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin His country and the United States said, “They are mutual.” And that the Trump administration “listens to us.” Trump and Putin Hold a summit At Alaska in early August, she left without an agreement to end the war.
A significant open note appears from a country he has often Critical WestLavrov noticed the summit and said that Russia has “some hopes” to continue speaking with the United States.
“In the approval of the current American administration, we see the desire not only to contribute to ways to solve the Ukrainian crisis in a realistic way, but also the desire to develop practical cooperation without adopting an ideological position,” said the diplomat, as he avoids risk in the world in everything. New war. “
Certainly, Lavrov still has sharp words for NATO, a coalition that includes the United States and the West in general and the European Union.
Trump’s new view came on Ukraine’s horizons after he met its president, Folodimir Zelinski, on the sidelines of the General Assembly on Tuesday – seven months later TV bombing Between the two in the oval office. This time, the doors were closed, and it was clear that the period is different – a “good meeting”, as described by Zelenskyy in it Assembly letter the next day.
to The fourth year in a rowZelinski appealed to the gathering of presidents, prime ministers and other senior officials to remove Russia from his country – and warned that failure to work would put the other countries at risk.
“Ukraine is only the first,” he said.
Russia has I made different interpretations For the Ukrainian war, among them Ensuring its security in Russia after NATO expansion East over the years and approached Ukraine after Russia moved to the Crimea. Russia also said that its attack was aimed at protecting the Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine and the West denounced Russia’s ingenuity as an unjustified aggressive act.
In his speech to the devastating war in Gaza, Lavrov condemned the sudden attack of Hamas fighters in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, but he said, “There is no justification” to kill Israel for Palestinian civilians, including children.
The Hamas attack was killed about 1,200 people in Israel. 251 hostages were taken. Israel’s sweeping attack killed more than 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. It does not give the collapse of civil deaths and fighters, but he says that about half of the dead were women and children.
Lavrov also said that there is no basis for any potential Israeli annexation of the West Bank, which the Palestinians consider a major part of their future condition, along with Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Israel has not announced this step, but many prominent members of the Netanyahu government have called for this. The officials recently agreed a A controversial settlement project This would effectively cut the West Bank, critics say critics say can calm the opportunities of a Palestinian state.
Between the Gaza war and the situation in the West Bank, “We are mainly dealing with an attempt by a kind of coup that aims to bury the United Nations resolutions over the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Lavrov said.
The international community has long adopted a “solution of the state” of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the idea of ​​the Palestinian state, saying that it will reward Hamas – a position he Repeat Friday In the General Assembly.