UNITED NATIONS, September 27 (RIA Novosti) — Western partners have consistently avoided cooperating with Russia on the creation of the "undivided security" zone from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
"Western partners have ignored our numerous warnings concerning the inadmissibility of breaking the UN Charter and Helsinki Final Act principles, consistently evaded proper collaboration on creating a zone of equal and undivided security and cooperation in the area from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans," Lavrov said.
"We were told that legally binding security guarantees could only be given to the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which at the time continued to expand into the east, despite promising the opposite," the minister added.
"NATO's immediate switch to hostile position, to reducing its cooperation with Russia, hurting the West's own interests, to increasing its military presence near Russian borders, has revealed the alliance's inability to change its genetic code, asserted during the Cold War," Lavrov said.
