MOSCOW. May 17 (Interfax) - Moscow shares the opinion of French President Emmanuel Macron that the future architecture of European security should prevent confrontation in relations with Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said.
"Of course, we share this idea. Over recent years or, to be more precise, decades, Russia has been continuously pushing for the formation of exactly this kind of Euro-Atlantic architecture based on the principle of indivisible security," Grushko told Interfax on Wednesday.
Macron gave a lengthy interview to the French media outlet L'Opinion, and said in particular that "the European security architecture will have to fully ensure the security of tomorrow's Ukraine. However, it will also have to elaborate a non-confrontational approach to Russia and restore a durable balance."
"This is close to what we call for: indivisible security, in which no one seeks to strengthen their security at the expense of others' security," Grushko said.
"The only question is how this postulate combines with the objective set by NATO and the EU, i.e. "a strategic defeat" of our country, the delivery of increasingly long-range and lethal weapons to the Kiev regime, and other support measures that aim to prolong the hostilities as much as possible, to the last Ukrainian," he said.