Naryshkin: U.S. policy puts world on brink of new "cold war"
MOSCOW. Sept 16 (Interfax) - The United States is pushing the world toward a new "cold war", Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin has said.
"The cynical and irresponsible policy being pursued by the United States and the countries that are taking their lead from the U.S. is effectively putting the world on the brink of a new "cold war"," he said when opening the chamber's autumn session.
Some updated version of this "cold war" is becoming today's reality," Naryshkin said.
The State Duma is launching its autumn session amid a sharp escalation of tensions around the world, he said.
"The long awaited ceasefire in the Donetsk and Luhansk republics has brought the bloodshed to a temporary halt, but the crisis and confrontation in Ukraine continue," he said.
The chaos happening in the very heart of Europe has done nothing to tame the bellicose ardor of those who provoked it half a year ago, Naryshkin said.
NATO's recent summit has only served to further complicate the situation, he said.
"We have been hearing from different sources that the Kyiv regime was promised deliveries of weapons and military hardware from individual countries of this bloc, a situation that threatens to become blatant intervention in Ukraine's domestic affairs, and, to put it bluntly, would aid and abet the war crimes being committed there," the State Duma speaker said.
"All masks have now been thrown off and the moment of truth has come," Naryshkin said.
"We can see that citizens in many European countries who have recently been living effectively amid an information blockade have started to ask their authorities some "inconvenient questions"," he said.
Citizens of European Union countries are beginning to understand that "recklessly following Washington's orders has already started to turn the national sovereignty of major and formerly great European powers into a fiction," the State Duma speaker said.
As a result, people living in a majority of these countries and local businesses have started to suffer economic losses, and "the threat of destabilization and, subsequently, disintegration is looming over the common European space," he said.
Some countries' disregard for international law and their imperial claims, as well as the over-compromising and the immoral conduct of other states have become totally obvious today, Naryshkin said.
