Press Secretary Peskov called President Putin's Munich speech in 2007 revolutionary
Photo: Evgenia Novozhenina / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech in Munich in 2007 was revolutionary in terms of direct presentation of current issues. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by RIA Novosti.
The press secretary of the head of state called the speech logically coherent, in which Putin also concentrated on the views of the Russian side on the problems of modern security and other issues.
“And then, of course, we could not imagine that in 2022, or rather, it began a couple of years earlier, we, in fact, in the rhetoric `- diplomatic, international — will slide into the vocabulary of the Cold War,” said Peskov.
According to him, the current events show that President Putin was right – in 2007 he spoke about the issue of disarmament, about the problems of short and medium-range missiles.
“And even then he said that practically the OSCE has become an organization that is used as an instrument in the hands of a certain circle of states in order to divide the countries of Europe into a certain circle of the elite and a circle of those who need to be subjected to such an exercise as democratization,” summed up the official Kremlin representative.
Putin spoke 15 years ago at the Munich Security Conference, dedicated to the unipolarity of the modern world. Then the president sharply criticized US foreign policy and NATO's eastward expansion. Putin promised that Russia would “respond asymmetrically” to the deployment of the US missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
