WALL – Russian President Putin stated that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “is a tough accomplice. Putin is a powerful chief who places Turkey’s pursuits at the beginning. Turkey and particularly President Erdogan are tough companions. “Many selections are made on account of lengthy and tough disagreements and negotiations, however there’s a want on either side to achieve these agreements, and we normally come to those agreements,” he stated.
‘WEST TAKES STEPS TO AGAINST THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE’
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the assembly organized by the suppose tank “Valday Membership”.
In line with the information in Sputnik Turkey Concerning the world order that Western international locations need, Putin stated, “Those that maintain energy need to stay with out guidelines.”
Saying that “The West has taken a sequence of steps that may exacerbate and escalate the scenario in Ukraine lately,” Putin argued that “there isn’t any unity within the West” and used the expressions “The West is a holding”.
Stating that the leak within the Nord Stream pipelines was sabotage, Putin stated, “The pink line has been crossed with the destruction of the gasoline pipelines in Europe.”
Putin stated, “The insurance policies of the West are bloody and soiled. The West rejects the sovereignty of nations and peoples. The West claims all of the sources of humanity.”
Referring to the occasions after Russia’s assault on Ukraine, Putin stated, “On the time, the Nazis went as far as to burn books, now the ‘guards of liberalism’ within the West are banning Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky. Historical past will put the whole lot as an alternative and neither Dostoevsky nor Pushkin. Tchaikovsky will even be forgotten, quite the opposite, those that attempt to make them overlook shall be forgotten,” he stated.
The highlights of Putin’s speech are as follows:
LIBERAL IDEOLOGY HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED’
“Liberal ideology has modified past recognition as we speak. Though classical liberalism initially understood the liberty of each individual as the liberty to say and do what you need, within the twentieth century liberals started to say that open society has its enemies and that these enemies ought to be restricted and even stripped of their freedom. Now liberalism It has change into absurd, any different perspective is subversive, propaganda and a menace to democracy are declared.”
THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD BE CHANGED’
“We have to take into account altering the construction of the United Nations and the United Nations Safety Council to replicate the range on this planet. We expect that the brand new world order ought to at the beginning be primarily based on regulation and regulation, and ought to be free and honest. International and commerce also needs to change into extra honest and open.
Russia considers the method of making new worldwide monetary platforms, together with for making worldwide funds, inevitable. These platforms ought to be unbiased, de-politicised, automated and never tied to a single headquarters. Can this be achieved? Actually. It requires many international locations to mix their efforts. Nevertheless it’s doable to do it.”
‘DONBASS CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT PART OF RUSSIA’
“So long as there are nuclear weapons on this planet, there’ll at all times be the hazard of utilizing these weapons. The approaching years would be the most harmful years for the reason that finish of the Second World Conflict.
Russia needed to do one thing about Donbass, Russia needed to decide for itself, however we could not simply acknowledge Donbass’ independence and depart them alone, as a result of the unbiased Donbass could not survive with out changing into a part of Russia.”
‘WE DON’T UNDERSTAND THE ENEMY’
“NATO enlargement was unacceptable to Russia and the West knew about it however ignored it. Negotiations on non-enlargement of NATO had been merely rejected. The West wished to stretch its arms and ‘present who’s boss at dwelling’ with the coup in Ukraine. They wished to get everybody on their aspect.
(In response to the query of whether or not he has a sense that he has ‘underestimated the enemy’ on Ukraine.) No, I haven’t got that feeling.”
‘THE COUNTRY THAT CAN GUARANTEE ITS SOVEREIGNITY TO UKRAINE IS THE COUNTRY THAT CREATED IT’
“(On the query of whether or not what occurred between Russia and Ukraine might be thought-about a civil conflict) Partly sure, it may be thought-about that method. Ukrainians and Russians are one folks. It is a historic truth. Ukraine is a synthetic state. Additionally it is the one nation that may assure the sovereignty of Ukraine. It’s the nation that created it, particularly Russia. As for the Ukrainians’ view of themselves as a separate folks, we are able to solely respect that.”
‘ERDOĞAN IS A STRONG LEADER BASED ON TURKEY’S INTERESTS’
“Erdogan is a powerful chief, at the beginning, maybe solely primarily based on the pursuits of Turkey, the Turkish folks and the pursuits of the Turkish economic system. His stance on vitality points and the development of TurkStream is essentially defined by this.
Erdogan by no means permits them to make use of him and drive him to take care of the pursuits of third international locations. Nonetheless, he additionally protects his personal pursuits within the dialogue with us.
On this respect, Turkey typically and President Erdogan specifically are tough companions. Many selections are made on account of lengthy and tough disagreements and negotiations, however there’s a want on either side to achieve these agreements and we normally attain them.”