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BEIJING, China – Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the West wants to expand the conflict in the Ukraine to the Asia-Pacific region, Russian state media reported, citing comments made at a Beijing defense forum on Monday, October 30.
Speaking at the Xiangshan Forum, China’s biggest military diplomacy event, Shoigu said NATO is covering up a build-up of forces in the Asia-Pacific region with an “ostentatious desire for dialogue,” Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
Shoigu said NATO countries were promoting an arms race in the region, increasing their military presence and the frequency and scale of military drills there.
US forces will use information exchanges with Tokyo and Seoul on missile launches to deter Russia and China, Shoigu said.
At the same time, he said, Russia’s move to revoke its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty did not mean the end of the agreement, and Russia was not lowering its threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.
Shoigu said that Moscow was ready for talks on the post-conflict settlement of the Ukraine crisis on further ‘coexistence’ with the West, but that Western countries needed to stop seeking Russia’s strategic defeat.
Making clear the conditions for such talks were not in place yet, Shoigu said: “It is also important to ensure equal relations between all the nuclear powers and permanent United Nations Security Council members who carry special responsibility for upholding peace and global stability.” – Rappler.com
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