Eurasian Security Challenges Escalate, Demand More CSTO Engagement: Lavrov
15:13 20.04.2026 (Updated: 16:47 20.04.2026)
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The threats in Eurasia are increasing significantly and this requires additional efforts from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
"Those who are closely following the latest developments, threats in Eurasia are increasing significantly, this requires additional efforts from us, because those who today are trying to dominate the world by unleashing wars, killing civilians to intimidate entire nations, they, of course, create more and more new threats, including both for our countries and in our common space, I would like to emphasize once again," Lavrov said during a speech at a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.
The CSTO will not deviate from international law and will oppose attempts to undermine it at a time when the West is increasingly resorting to force and neocolonial methods, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
"At the present time, when the West is increasingly and more widely resorting to the illegitimate use of force, to neocolonial methods of dictation and outright plunder, the CSTO countries are not changing or revising the goals of their activities. We will not deviate from the universal norms of international law; on the contrary, we will counteract attempts to undermine them and counteract attempts to impose lawlessness in world affairs," Lavrov said.
The Russian foreign minister also emphasized that the organization's moral leadership on the international stage is in greater demand than ever.
"I am convinced that we retain the moral leadership on the international stage, which has always been in demand. And after the hopefully relatively swift conclusion of what we are currently witnessing, that moral leadership will be in greater demand than ever before," Lavrov added.
The chances of creating a Palestinian state are getting lower, Sergey Lavrov said.
"Complete stagnation, which exacerbates the tragedy of the Palestinian people, both in Gaza and in the West Bank. If you look at the geographical map, the chances of creating a Palestinian state are becoming lower and lower," Lavrov said.
The echoes of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will also affect the CSTO region, Lavrov added.
Western countries are contemplating the idea of creating a new bloc with the participation of Ukraine amid the NATO crisis, Lavrov said.
"We are witnessing a crisis in NATO, and voices are already being heard, louder and louder from various official sources in Europe, that it is necessary to form a new bloc with the European Union, the UK, Norway and ... Ukraine," Lavrov said.
The ideology and practice of Nazism are being revived in Germany and in countries that once joined the Nazis in the war against the Soviet Union, the Russian minister also said, adding that such a course is observed in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
"I must also mention Britain, which has always been the birthplace of the philosophy of racial superiority, in connection with attempts to revive Nazism," Lavrov said.
The minister also pointed to Ukraine, which has been turning into an instrument of war against Russia for decades.
