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The Russian Security Council earlier stressed that the country’s new foreign policy concept reflects a new approach to Moscow’s relations with the West.
President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday that he had penned a decree adopting Russia’s new foreign policy concept.
"Today, I signed a decree approving the updated concept of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation," Putin said at a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council.
Putin said that the Russian Foreign Ministry along with other departments had worked hard to bring the new foreign policy concept in line with modern realities.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for his part underscored that the document directly calls the US the main instigator of anti-Russian politics in the world.
"The existential nature of the threats to our country’s security and development, created by the actions of unfriendly states, has been recognized. The US has been directly named as the main instigator of this anti-Russian line, and on the whole, the West’s policy, aimed at weakening Russia in every possible way, is characterized as a new type of hybrid war," Lavrov told a Russian Security Council meeting on Friday.
He added that the logic behind Russia’s new foreign policy concept reflects the revolutionary changes in international affairs.
"The logic of the document [...] reflects the changing geopolitical realities, in fact, revolutionary advances on the outer contour, which received visible acceleration with the start of a special military operation," Lavrov underlined.
He also said that Moscow’s new foreign policy concept suggests using the military to fend off or prevent an armed attack on Russia and its allies.
"Thus, we unequivocally declare that we will defend the right of the Russian people to [their] existence and free development," the foreign minister maintained.
New Russian Foreign Policy Concept
According to Putin’s decree, "the new foreign policy concept is a document of strategic planning that represents a system of views on Russia’s national interests in the foreign policy sphere, as well as basic principles, strategic goals, and priority areas for the Kremlin’s foreign policy."
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