The Rev Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations has made an attack on Western countries and said they should not impose their standards around the world."We should have a strong State and a strong military, for we would then have the will and ability to repel any invasion against our way of life and interests, and our ability to influence events developing in the world," said Mr Chaplin.
Speaking of Western countries, the senior official of the Russian Orthodox Church said: "In spite of all their talk of adhering to international law and respecting self-determination, these countries have always acted solely in their own interests and applied quite contrary principles."
Chaplin, a member of the central committee, asserted: "Survival is impossible for a society deprived of faith as a foundation of public life and of any purpose except consumption, and which embraces the ideal of imposing a particular form of democracy around the globe simply because it is expedient for American banks, Western governments, and the world economic and media elite."
This member of an expert panel on freedom of religion of the Organisation on Security and Co-operation in Europe, Chaplin said the “United States and NATO had sent troops to countries where the people have never asked for them, and neither referendums nor votes were held on the question," and added that Western governments had "omitted and rejected the idea of territorial integrity”, but had nothing to say about Georgian violence in South Ossetia.
He concluded, "We need to remain strong, and be determined to say 'no' to everyone who tries to spread their influence in the world at our expense, by infringing our interests."
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