TBT: What Vladimir Putin said about global security 15 years ago

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“When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger.”  These were Putin’s words back in 2007 at the Conference on Security Policy in Munich…

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00:00As Franklin Roosevelt said in the first days of the Second World War,

00:07no matter where the world is broken, the world is safe and under threat everywhere.

00:14These words continue to be relevant today.

00:17This is evidenced by the topic of our conference, which is written here –

00:23global crises, global responsibility.

00:26I am convinced that we have come to a critical moment,

00:29when we must seriously consider the whole architecture of global security.

00:35Do we have to look involuntarily at various internal conflicts in certain countries,

00:41at the actions of authoritarian regimes, tyrants,

00:45at the spread of weapons of mass destruction?

00:48Of course, this is a serious issue.

00:50Can we look involuntarily at what is happening?

00:57I will try to answer your question as well.

01:00Of course, we should not look involuntarily.

01:02Of course, we should not.

01:04But do we have the means to resist this threat?

01:08Of course, we do.

01:10It is enough to recall a recent story.

01:14After all, there was a peaceful transition to democracy in our country.

01:18After all, there was a peaceful transformation of the Soviet regime.

01:23A peaceful transformation.

01:25And what regime?

01:27With what number of weapons, including nuclear weapons?

01:31Why now, in every convenient case, do we need to bomb and shoot?

01:37Is it really that in the absence of the threat of mutual destruction,

01:41we lack political culture, respect for the values of democracy and the rule of law?

01:46The potential danger of destabilizing international relations

01:49is associated with an obvious stagnation in the field of disarmament.

01:53Russia is in favor of resuming dialogue on this most important issue.

01:58It is important to maintain the stability of the international legal disarmament base,

02:06while ensuring the continuity of the process of reducing nuclear weapons.

02:12I cannot but mention the crisis state of the agreement on the usual armed forces in Europe.

02:18NATO countries have openly stated that they will not ratify the agreement,

02:22including the position on the flanking restrictions,

02:26on the deployment of a certain number of armed forces on the flanks,

02:30until Russia withdraws its bases from Georgia and Moldova.

02:34Our troops are withdrawing from Georgia, and even in an accelerated order.

02:38We and our Georgian colleagues have solved these problems, and everyone knows that.

02:43In Moldova, there is a group of 1,500 servicemen

02:47who perform peacekeeping functions and guard warehouses with ammunition

02:52that have remained since the USSR.

02:55But what is happening at the same time?

02:58At the same time, in Bulgaria and Romania,

03:01the so-called light American advance bases of 5,000 bayonets each are appearing.

03:11It turns out that NATO is pushing its advance forces to our state borders,

03:17and we, strictly fulfilling the agreement, do not react to these actions in any way.

03:22I think it is obvious that the process of NATO expansion has nothing to do

03:27with the modernization of the Alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe.

03:32On the contrary, this is a seriously provoking factor that reduces the level of mutual trust.

03:38And we have a fair right to ask frankly against whom this expansion is.

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