🎙 Remarks and answers to media questions by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following the High-Level Plenary Session of the Fourth (IV) Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security (Minsk, November 3, 2026) Key points: • The West wants to impose its own rules across the entire Eurasian continent, including its eastern part. It has said so openly. There is a great deal of diplomatic work ahead, and developments on the ground will inevitably shape that work. • Everyone is watching developments in the Ukraine crisis. We sensed that participants in today’s Fourth Minsk Conference want the crisis to end as soon as possible on a just basis. Above all, this means addressing the root causes of the war the West unleashed against us through the neo-Nazi regime it created. • I do not see how the OSCE can be saved in the foreseeable future. For now, it remains a forum where we can put forward our views and refute the ever-growing stream of lies the West spreads day after day, at every meeting. • With [the draft Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century], we want to launch a process based on the indivisibility of security. As we understood it, the OSCE endorsed these principles in 1999 and reaffirmed them in 2010. ☝️ No one should strengthen their security at the expense of others, and no country, organisation or group of countries should seek dominance in any geopolitical space. The West has done precisely the opposite. • Europeans are pleased that Zelensky wants to create a pantheon of heroes, even though they understand that this is yet another affront to the victims and Victors of World War II and to UN decisions on the inadmissibility of reviving Nazism. He wants to open this pantheon of "Nazi ashes" at a holy site, the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. 👉 If this is not Nazism, I do not know how we are supposed to talk to the Europeans. • The West says that, to save lives, we should freeze hostilities along the current line of contact. Yet they still want to send in “stabilisation forces”. What regime do they want to “stabilise”? The one that kneels before the ashes of Nazi criminals, holds torchlight marches where people give Nazi salutes, and still has no intention of repealing the laws banning the use of Russian everywhere. Read in full