Lavrov: Europe and NATO are trying to take control of the Asia-Pacific region

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressed the press Sunday following the 17th East Asia Summit in Cambodia.

His main points:

Inclusive, open, equal structure of security and cooperation in ASEAN.
Europe and NATO want to militarize the region to contain the interests of Russia and China in the Indo-Pacific region

Manifestation of this policy is AUKUS, which openly aims at confrontation in South China Sea

The West accepts ASEAN only nominally while promoting its own instruments

Because the Soviet Union no longer exists, NATO's purpose is unclear

NATO has moved toward Russia's borders several times and now at the Madrid summit has declared that it has assumed global