(AGENPARL) – KREMLIN mer 24 maggio 2023

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues,

Greetings to the participants in the 11^th International Meeting of High Representatives in charge of security issues.

Over years, your regular
communication and exchange of experience and assessments have proved their importance
and helped resolve key issues of ensuring global and regional security and strategic stability.

Your agenda today is also quite
packed and important. First, you will discuss the international situation at hand and its prospects, analyse major modern threats, including international
terrorism, extremism, arms and drug trafficking, transnational crime and illegal migration and, of course, food and cyber security matters.

Clearly, the international situation
can be described in terms of mounting instability. Different regions see old hotbeds
of tension expand and new ones emerge, the negative burden of conflicts is piling
up, and people in many countries are experiencing the dramatic aftermath of the foreign-engineered coups.

This state of affairs directly stems
from the desire of individual states and associations to preserve their
dominance and impose their rules as they continue to act in complete disregard
of other countries’ sovereignty, national interests and traditions. All of that
goes hand in hand with building up military capacity and brutal interference in the internal affairs of other countries, as well as the attempts to secure
unilateral advantages from the energy and food crises provoked by a number of Western states.

Russia is convinced that there is a workable
alternative to this destructive course and policy of blackmail and illegitimate
sanctions, which includes the strengthening of stability around the world, the consistent building of single and indivisible security, and the solution to formidable
tasks leading to economic, technological and social progress. To get there, it
is primarily important to coordinate the efforts of all countries and to ensure
painstaking joint work based on the principles of mutual respect, partnership
and trust. These approaches are laid down in the revised Russia’s Foreign
Policy Concept.

I have said more than once and I will say it again: our country stands ready to establish close interaction with
all countries that have an interest in countering common threats and challenges
facing humanity.

We highly appreciate the fact that
Russia has many partners in different regions and on different continents and the historically strong, friendly, and trust-based ties with the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and we will work to fortify them in every way we
can.

I am sure that acting together we
will build a more just multipolar world, and the exceptionalism-driven ideology,
as well as the neo-colonial system that made it possible
to exploit the resources of the whole world, will inevitably become a thing of the past.

I hope you will have a constructive
and productive meeting, and outline new forms and areas of practical
cooperation for the good of our countries and peoples in the interests of peace
and stability on the planet.

I wish you every success and all the best.

Thank you.

Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71189