Our Opponents Don’t Want Russia to be Strong and Prosperous - 15 October, 2002 - News

Georgy Maitakov, Deputy Duma Chairman for Security problems, on globalization and the Kaliningrad problem. The following is an extract from the speech during a Duma session covering the conflict regarding the Kaliningrad region in connection with EU expansion

The problem under discussion is extremely urgent today and demands the closer attention of governmental authorities, public political and academic organizations, and the mass media. It is not accidental that Russian President Putin paid special attention to the problem of the Russian city of Kaliningrad at the session in the RF Foreign Ministry on June 11, 2002, and this was declared the main priority in the Russian foreign policy.

The quick development of world developments, the tendency toward a one-pole world, and the establishment of a new world order causes us consider the Kaliningrad problem in the light of preserving the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian Federation under the threat of globalization.

Currently, we observe that the influence of transnational financial groups on events in the world is increasing, and they are transforming into a multi-national center of global management. At that, the process of the revision of the fundamental international law norms is aimed at breaking the restrictions of governmental sovereignty of independent states. Thus, regarding the realization of the globalization model, which is currently a deadlock model, we should admit that the strengthening of the state system in some states and the globalization that removes state sovereignty are antipode.

Zbigniew Brezinski, a man who still exerts considerable influence upon the formation of US foreign policy, developed the geopolitical aspect of globalization. He says that the shortest way to a global world system is through America’s complete hegemony. That is why he is sure that the objective of US policy should consist of two items. These are the necessity to secure its predominant position and the necessity to create a geopolitical structure that can soften the tension caused by the forced remaking of the world during the establishment of the new world order.

The Russian Federation takes a special place in the plans designed for the new world order due to its large potential and civilized originality. Our opponents don’t want Russia to be strong and prospering; they think that Russia should be scattered, weak, and exhausted. And we are aware of the plans of these international forces designed to bring Russia to this pathetic state. When a group of Russian deputies went for professional retraining in Harvard, they listened to scientists from the University and the US Foreign Department openly say that the USA is actually the leading world power. As you see, no special role is assigned to the Russian Federation at that.

Let’s remember the speech by ex-President of the USA Bill Clinton during a closed session of the United Committee of HQ commanders on October 25, 1995. The ex-president outlined concrete objectives to bring the Russian Federation to the level of a third-world country, and what is more, he obviously directed the American military and political elite to split Russia into small states by waging international wars, the way it was done in Yugoslavia.

It was also extremely cynical of Zbigniew Brezinski to speak out at a closed session of the US-Ukrainian advisory committee dedicated to conferring upon him the rank of the Lvov Citizen of Honor, when he said that the US-led new world order was created against Russia, at Russia’s expense, and on its debris.

In the context of globalization, the Kaliningrad region and South Kurile are the snare with which our opponents are testing Russia’s strength to defend its territorial integrity and state sovereignty. Against this background, the thesis on the EU directed at the estrangement of the Kaliningrad region from the Russian Federation sounds well-founded. Georgy Maitakov Deputy Duma Chairman for Security problems

Translated by Maria Gousseva

Read the original in Russian: http://www.pravda.ru/main/2002/10/15/48383.html

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