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The aggressive activity of the US and its allies threatens the security of the entire Eurasian continent and increases the risk of its fragmentation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the plenary session of the 2nd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security.

"As a result of aggressive actions by the US, NATO and the European Union, the risks of our continent’s fragmentation have increased. The European security architecture being discussed by us is meant to become a constructive alternative to these negative trends, stabilize the military and political situation on the shared continent, ensure its unity and interconnectedness and remove any threats from the Western Euro-Atlantic direction," TASS quoted the top Russian diplomat as sating.

Lavrov noted that the West continues to meddle in the South Caucasus, seeking to influence the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process, while the US and its allies are attempting to insert themselves into the fragile process of stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan and inventing excuses to resume their military presence in Central Asia.