India Pakistan News: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavarov claimed on Thursday (15 May 2025) that western countries want to throw Asia in the fire of war. He said that western countries are putting India and Pakistan against each other. According to a report by the government news agency TASS, Lavarov made this comment in a meeting of the Diplomatic Club on the role of cultural diplomacy and development in Moscow.

Planning for conflict in India-China

The Russian Foreign Minister said, “Consider the recent developments of the Asia-Pacific region, which the West has started calling its policy clearly to give anti-China trends. With the hope that this can create conflict between our friends and neighboring countries India and China.”

Lavarov, an outspoken critic of the quad to deal with China’s growing influence, has reduced its criticism after the formation of Australia, Britain and the US military alliance AUKUS. Quad includes India, America, Japan and America. Lavarov said that the western country is trying to weaken the role of ASEAN (South-Eastern Asian nations) in Asia.

Western countries want their impact in Asia

He said, “Like other parts of the Western partners want to come here in an impressive role here. They want to weaken the central role of ASEAN, which had been favorable for everyone for many decades and which was based on the unanimous consonant in the field of politics from ASEAN countries and their colleagues, in the field of politics, in the field of military cooperation and in the field of defense.”

ASEAN is a regional group of 10 countries in South-East Asia, which aims to promote economic and security cooperation among its members. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Myanma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are its member countries.

‘No continent like Eurasia’

The Russian Foreign Minister said, “Our Western allies are slowly starting to sideline the rules of consensus, shared base and some ASEAN countries are tempting to join the resistant forums instead of integrated forums. He also called for collective security arrangements in Eurasia.

Lavarov said, “There is no other continent like Eurasia, where so many civilizations live together and who have maintained their identity and relevance even in the modern era. However, Eurasia is also the only continent where there is no continent-wide platform. Eurasia needs such an integrated platform in Eurasia, so that many big, in fact, in fact, in fact, in fact, in fact, in fact, there can