Expressing condolences to the Belgian people and others, who may have suffered from today's terrorist attacks, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the attacks should remind people that no place is safe from terror.
"This daydream that many people were in, that there are safe corners, where people can feel completely safe from terrorism, it's time to wake up from this daydream, there are no such places," Zakharova told Radio Sputnik.
"The reason for this is the endless chain of political intrigue, in part, in the Middle Eastern region in the past few years, when with a show of good intentions, states were destroyed, and no one was going to answer where these people, who have no money, no home, for many of them no family, as it died in endless conflict, will go," Zakharova told Radio Sputnik.
She added that the foreign policy of the European Union and United States in past years led to a loss in the time that could have been used to prevent the attacks.
"A large amount of time was wasted, and, unfortunately, many people's lives were lost. We need to understand that the only way to counteract this and find an antidote is global international cooperation, without any preconditions, without division into friend-or-foe," Zakharova told Radio Sputnik.
"Why are they making up some mythical threats, which do not exist, some information-hybrid wars, which they find ways to resist, allocate millions of euros for, while the threat is right here, carried in suitcases, aboard airplanes, carried in backpacks in the subway, left behind in boxes near pedestrian crossings," Zakharova told Radio Sputnik.
To prevent further attacks, then, Zakharova said, it is necessary to focus priorities on the real threat of terrorism, the exchange of information and cooperation, rather than division and the creation of "threats" allegedly posed by state actors.
