Russia: reset 2.0 – Republic

Sergei Lavrov at the UN

Source: AFP

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the United States and Russia again need ” reset “.

According to Lavrov,” Russia is interested in normalizing relations with the United States, although it is not destroyed them. And now needed is what the Americans certainly the name boot. “Minister thinks that you are ready to talk because” began the peace process in Ukraine. “

In several interviews given on Sunday, the Russian foreign minister complained to the fact that the West “is not got rid of the psychology of the Cold War.” particularly upset Minister common article of American President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron in the “Times” published before the NATO summit on September 5. “Russia has been there mentioned among the main enemies of the United States, well it did not fit in my head” – he said.

However, Lavrov suggested that Moscow and Washington should join the “normalization of relations”, ie “reset.” For the first time this term she used then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, propose in early 2009 Moscow “reset” of relations, that is, start talks again. At the time, they are spoiled because of Russian aggression against Georgia in August 2008. Currently Lavrov terminology refers to the five-year antiquity.

At the same time, however, in the same interview, the Russian minister said “the renewal of Russia’s nuclear arsenal.” But – in his opinion – in any case does not mean the beginning of the “arms race” and only replacement of old equipment with new. “He ended up just the expiry date” – he explained. Kremlin with all his might avoid throwing challenges the United States in the field of armaments, taking care that it does not stand economically possible “race.”

Despite the conciliatory gestures towards the United States, the day before performing from the rostrum of the UN Lavrov sharply criticized American foreign policy. “The impression that the purpose of the many” color revolutions “and other projects unpleasant changes (West) government is provoking chaos and instability” – said in New York. “Color revolutions” is, according to the Kremlin planned a series of coups in the West: in Ukraine in 2004, Georgia in 2003 and Kyrgyzstan in 2005, Russia categorically rejects the possibility that it was a spontaneous social movements considering them as a conspiracy.

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Russia: reset 2.0 – Republic