Unii comemorează 1939; nimeni nu mai aniversează 1944. Tema zilei (pe lângă agresarea sexuală a copiilor) este hitler=stalin.
Stăm liniștiți, la locurile noastre. Dacă nu e ordin…
UPDATE 24.08.2019: iacă și protocolul.
Despre INF la UNSC. (memorare)
We didn’t convene this meeting to accuse our American colleagues of slyness. Today any more or less unbiased expert in disarmament knows that those are hard facts. You can repeat your old mantra that it was Russia’s actions that led to the end of the INF Treaty all you want, but the latest moves of Washington eloquently suggest otherwise. But that is not the issue anymore. To be honest, today we do not mostly appeal to our American partners, as their view is clear. What surprises us is the position of our European colleagues that they maintain with stubbornness that would be of much more help during other discussions.
Let me remind you, as recently as last December, Russia proposed a General Assembly draft resolution in support for the INF Treaty. It did not contain any criticism of the U.S., but only urged to support diplomatic efforts to address the challenges, that affect the security and national interests of all UN member states without any exception. We unequivocally warned then that the demise of the INF Treaty would not only undermine the implementation of Article VI of the NPT, but would also lead to a new nuclear arms race. Many partners listened carefully to us then, but Washington’s European allies did not. I’ve got a question for you: are you happy today that in December you chose to press the “red button”? Don’t you understand that your “playing along” with the Americans, step by step, brings back the bygone era when missiles could be targeted at European cities from different sides?
We’re not going to be the first to do that. However, given that our American colleagues are clearly itching and want to “flex their muscles”, the situation I’ve just described may be at hand. Are you aware that because of the geopolitical ambitions of the USA we are all just one step away from an uncontrolled and unregulated arms race? As for us, we are deeply concerned with this situation, unlike our American colleagues. In any case, according to President Trump, America is ready for an arms race, as it is supposedly capable to surpass any of its potential rivals in terms of finance and technology.
This logic, inspired by the best American westerns, is backed by figures: according to public data the U.S. military budget is about $700 billion. The NATO budget amounts to $1,4 trillion. These are just approximate figures. For reference: the military budget of Russia that allegedly threatens all, is about $60 billion, i.e. more than 20 times lower than that of NATO.
Și răspunsul la afirmația US:
With regard to the 9M729 missile, over many years of discussion the United States has persistently refused to inform us not only of those test events that as we understand have raised questions in Washington, but also to provide any information that would allow us to identify this product in general.
Last year, after it finally became clear what Washington was so concerned about, we offered the U.S. side to look at the 9M729 missile they are interested in “behind closed doors” and get all the exhaustive information about it, in order to make sure that these weapons do not violate the treaty. In response, we also received a refusal
Then we made another attempt. As an unprecedented transparency measure that goes far beyond the requirements of the Treaty, we openly demonstrated the missile in the presence of foreign delegations, but U.S. representatives did not participate in the event and recommended their NATO partners to withdraw their participation as well, which, of course, they did.
In this regard, we do not understand the arguments of our American colleague – we offered to provide you with all the information you had been interested in to save the INF Treaty. And now, when you have already brought the Treaty to the collapse, you are trying to require this information.
Let me focus a minute on the new Russian weapons systems that were also mentioned here earlier. My American colleague cannot help but know that they all have the same distinctive feature: they are aimed at overcoming missile defense systems. We were forced to develop this type of product precisely because of the withdrawal of the United States of America from the ABM Treaty, to which I referred in my statement, and also because of the deployment of such systems near our borders. This is another problem artificially created by Washington, which, as I said, we have been unsuccessfully trying to prevent for a long time. And it is NATO countries that are involved in this situation – I would like to stress it out so that no one has delusions in this regard.
Ms President,
In conclusion, I would like to say that today’s meeting, unfortunately, has proved to be so predictable that it is even boring. As we expected, the United States and countries “grunting along” with them confuse the innocent with the guilty blaming Russia for all mortal sins, despite the facts and common sense. There is nothing new or surprising about that. In the parallel reality created by our Western partners, where no evidence is required and allegations in the spirit of “highly likely” are enough to prove something, such behavior is considered normal. The fact is that we live not in a virtual world, but in the real one, and our world still has a chance while there are countries and experts questioning all these seamless, but empty Western tales.
I would like to believe that our initiative with China will increase the number of those who will not be afraid to call things by their real names and to demand actions and practical steps from those who violate agreements important for the whole world and do not take into consideration the norms of international law to please their ambitions.