Complaining about the attitude that the West took vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and the challenges it faced throughout the 1980s, he warned: “if we take the same attitude towards developing countries as we did towards the USSR”, we will face "a catastrophe."
Viņš norādīja, ka Eiropa varēja daudz ko mācīties no pieredzes un kļūdām PSRS, kur 80.gados Perestroikas un Glastnotj laikā viens no svarīgākajiem jautājumiem bija vides aizsardzība.