Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Public Diplomacy Support Foundation on 13 March that the task of forming a “new architecture” of security in the Eurasian region was becoming increasingly urgent amid the “complete degradation of the OSCE,” according to Russian media.
On the regional scale, the task of forming a new architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia is coming into the spotlight amid the aforementioned complete degradation of the OSCE [Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe] as a Euro-Atlantic symbol.
Lavrov noted that the “new architecture” would enhance the process of formation of the Eurasian partnership, which developed due to the joint efforts of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, ASEAN and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The Minister stated that such work had already been launched in October 2023, with Russia taking part in an international conference in Minsk, hosted by the Belarusian presidency of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO).
The need to establish a new structure capable of ensuring Eurasian security was previously voiced by President Vladimir Putin in his address to the Federal Assembly in late February. Putin declared that his country was ready to negotiate with all countries and associations concerned.
