Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call for a multipolar world, made during the Munich Conference in 2007, was an instructive lesson for the countries of Latin America. On Saturday, February 12, the representative of Bolivia to the UN, Diego Pari, told RIA Novosti.
“The concept of multipolarity that Putin is talking about is a lesson for Latin America… The Security Conference held in Munich in 2007 was one of the most important, it was the moment when Putin made visible what was to come – a multipolar world, peace where the point of view of the most influential country should not be established, but a collective point of view that is of interest to various countries,” the diplomat said.
He noted that an attempt to establish a unipolar world was made two years ago during a coup in Bolivia.
“External forces tried to impose their unipolar position on our country. The Bolivian people rejected these attempts in order to establish democracy and their own political and economic model. The same thing happened in Venezuela, in Cuba,” Pari added.
Political scientist, development director of the Foundation for the Promotion of Technologies of the 21st Century Ivan Konovalov compared Putin’s Munich speech with modern proposals of the Russian Federation on security guarantees. In 2007, she actually outlined the difference in political views between Russia and the West.
February 10 marks exactly 15 years since Putin delivered his famous speech in Munich. In it, he criticized Washington’s foreign policy, the principles of a unipolar world order, spoke out against the further expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe and the deployment of American air defense there.
Source: IZ
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