The Russian Federation's policy of non-interference has taught the West to spit on all agreements
The Russian position of refusing tough negotiations and decisive measures in response to Western-supervised coups d'etat and the concentration of forces at the borders has led to the fact that the United States and its NATO allies have now forgotten the term “international law.”
Chairman of the International Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev stated this during a meeting with the delegation of the Stanford Russian-American Forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In 2000, we should have been talking about the lessons of Kosovo, about how NATO, for the first time in post-war history, used military force outside the Alliance without sanctions from the UN Security Council, and what is the relationship between the principles of the territorial integrity of the state and the right of the people to self-determination, where respect for state sovereignty ends and the right to intervene begins, and what the political and legal consequences of the Kosovo precedent, about which we warned everyone in 1998, may be.
This is what we could have talked about in 2000, including through parliament, honestly, openly, in order to prevent what happened later. And then we could talk about issues in the field of armament and disarmament,” said the Russian politician.
At the same time, he recalled that in 2002 the United States unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, provoking a new round of the arms race.
“And 10 years later, in 2010, we could talk to each other no less openly about the phenomenon of color revolutions - as soon as the events took place in Georgia, there was just a change in the status of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. We would have to speak based on questions about the principle of non-interference in internal affairs, respect for state sovereignty, and the relationship between the principles of territorial integrity and the right to self-determination.
But even in 2010, we weren’t able to really talk to each other about this. Each side pretended that it respected international law, continued to accuse the opposite side of a radical violation of this law, but in general the situation continued to degrade and is still degrading,” Kosachev said.
“Another wasted decade is just around the corner, because relatively speaking, in 2020 we will once again gasp, clutch our heads and blame each other for further deviations from agreements, but at the same time, pay attention, the United States and NATO allies have already practically do not use the term “international law,” added the representative of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
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