NEW DELHI. April 28 (Interfax) - Washington and its allies have seriously eroded the world security architecture in their attempts to preserve their global dominance, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
"Seeking to preserve their global dominance, the U.S. and its allies have seriously eroded the world security architecture. The process of demolishing and dismantling the key agreements on arms control and confidence-building measures was started at their initiative," Shoigu said at a meeting of the defense ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member countries in New Delhi on Friday.
At first, Washington unilaterally terminated the Soviet-U.S. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, refused to ratify the Adapted Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, and then withdrew from the Treaty Between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles and the Treaty on Open Skies, he said.
Shoigu said that today's meeting with counterparts from the SCO countries "comes against the backdrop of the extremely unstable international situation."
"Drastic, dynamic and irreversible changes are taking place in the process of the establishment of a new multipolar world. The collective West is actively counteracting that," the defense minister said.