MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The West is waging a campaign to restrain Russia and China, which makes it all the more important to deepen interaction between the two countries, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
"Under conditions of the campaign launched by the collective West of dually restraining Russia and the PRC [People's Republic of China], further deepening of Russian-Chinese coordination and cooperation on international stages gains a particular meaning," Patrushev said at a meeting with member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee Wang Yi.
"Further transformation of the international-relations system into a multipolar world-order model is being met with growing resistance from the collective West seeking to retain its global dominance at all costs," Patrushev said.
Western countries had unilaterally denounced a number of crucial international agreements, including on arms control, he said. "The United States and allies are trying to substitute the universal norms of international law with the so-called 'rules-based order'," Patrushev said.
"The bloodshed unleashed by the West in Ukraine is just one example. All this is being done against Russia and China, and to the detriment of developing nations," Patrushev said.
Western countries are "promoting projects to create new military blocs in various world regions, which only a handful of countries stand to gain from," he said.