Live / The EU is “militarizing at a record pace” and little different from NATO, says Lavrov

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, will participate in the summit of the Group of the seven most industrialized countries in the world (G7), from May 19 to 21 in Hiroshima, Japan, the White House announced.

The heads of state of the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) will discuss “unwavering support for Ukraine”, the “food and climate crisis”, how to “ensure inclusive and resilient economic growth ”. ” and efforts toward a “clean energy transition,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Tuesday.

The Russian foreign minister warned on Tuesday that the European Union “is militarizing at a record pace” and is becoming aggressive in containing Russia.

Sergei Lavrov also told a press conference that he has no doubt that there is now “very little difference” between the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The official recalled that the two organizations recently signed a declaration that, according to the head of Russian diplomacy, essentially states that the 31-member NATO military alliance will guarantee the security of the 27-member EU political and economic organization.

Lavrov was asked if the war in Ukraine was a miscalculation, given that Moscow is strongly opposed to NATO expansion and the invasion led Finland to join, with Sweden and even Ukraine likely to follow suit.

“NATO never intended to stop,” the Russian minister replied. Lavrov said that Russia was repeatedly promised that NATO would not expand, that “they were lies.” “The impartial assessments that have been made by our political scientists, as well as by foreigners, is that NATO intended to divide Russia,” he maintained.

But in the end it only made her stronger, brought her closer. Therefore, we should not jump to conclusions about the final result”, explained the diplomat.