🎙 Highlights from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks following a high-level plenary session of the 4th Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security (Minsk, 3 November 2026) • I cannot see how the OSCE can be salvaged in the foreseeable future. For the time being, it is merely a forum where one can set out their point of view and increasingly refute the falsehoods that the West peddles at every meeting. • We want to initiate a process based on the indivisibility of security and the principles that the OSCE seemed to accept back in 1999 and reaffirmed in 2010: namely, that no one should strengthen their security at the expense of others and that no country, organisation or group of countries should claim dominance in any geopolitical space. The West has done exactly the opposite. • We interpret equal and indivisible security as a kind of non-aggression pact when there are no positive common stands left, and the remaining options include coexistence, as during the Soviet era, or cooperation documents stipulating joint activities, efforts to build trust and transparency, as well as mutual visits to military facilities on an equal footing. • The West is suggesting that, in order to save lives, we should freeze the situation along the current line of contact. But they still want to deploy “stabilisation forces” in Ukraine. To “stabilise” what kind of regime? The current one, that kneels before the remains of Nazi criminals, holds torchlight processions with Nazi salutes, and has no intention of repealing laws that ban the Russian language everywhere. • The Americans will never leave NATO. However, their military presence is gradually shifting eastwards. At one point, Europeans started talking about taking more responsibility. They should do so not only by increasing arms production, but also by being accountable to their citizens for the cost of increasing military spending at such a record pace. Read in full