The veteran politician declared that the precept has repeatedly been flouted by western international locations, citing the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the invasion of Iraq by a US-led coalition and NATO’s army operation in Libya.
“The foundation of the issue lies within the incessant makes an attempt to divide the world into us and them, into democracy and autocracy, right into a blooming backyard and a jungle, those that are on the desk and those that are on the menu.”
West ‘sabotaging the pursuit of constructive options’
On Friday, an try by Russia and China to increase sanction reduction to Iran below a 2015 nuclear deal didn’t obtain sufficient votes within the Security Council. Mr. Lavrov argued that the vote confirmed that the West has a coverage of “sabotaging the pursuit of constructive options within the UN Security Council” and a want to “extract unilateral concessions from Tehran via blackmail and stress.”
Sanctions, continued the minister, are used to “suppress and intimidate opponents within the world economic system and politics.” He known as for Cuban sanctions to be lifted and expressed Russia’s solidarity with the individuals of Venezuela within the face of exterior sanctions.
Safety Council resolutions are being flouted within the Balkans, claimed Mr. Lavrov, citing the unilateral recognition of Kosovo which, he stated, was opposite to Resolution 1244.
Europe ‘obsessive about the objective of inflicting a defeat on Russia’
As for Ukraine, Mr. Lavrov justified the continuing conflict by claiming that the nation is run by a regime which “seized energy on account of an anti-constitutional coup organised by the West in 2014,” got down to eradicate the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and eradicated the Russian language in training, tradition and the media.
Mr. Lavrov claimed that Russia is open to negotiations on “eliminating the foundation causes of the battle,” so long as the nation’s pursuits are assured, and the rights of Russians and Russian-speaking individuals in Ukraine are restored.
Moscow, stated Mr. Lavrov, has no intention of attacking European Union and NATO international locations, regardless of international locations in these blocs “telling their voters that conflict with Russia is inevitable.”
The Russian minister was extra constructive concerning the state of US relations, expressing hope that the dialogue begun in Alaska will result in a decision of the Ukrainian battle and develop pragmatic cooperation.
Don’t enable a ‘palace coup’ on the UN
The present stability of worldwide energy, argued Mr. Lavrov, is just not being mirrored on the United Nations, which is why Russia helps Brazil and India’s purposes for everlasting seats on the Safety Council, and Secretary-General António Guterres’s proposed reform of the UN.
The Secretariat, he added, should pretty symbolize the international locations of the world and “makes an attempt at a palace coup, its privatisation by a small group of nations, should not be allowed.”
Russia, famous Mr. Lavrov, appears to be like ahead to a constructive dialogue of the organisation’s growth at a particular assembly of the Safety Council which Russia, as President, plans to organise on United Nations Day on the twenty fourth of October.
‘Nazism is rearing its head’
An increasing number of international locations, asserted the Overseas Minister, have gotten concerned in “confrontational schemes.” He claimed that NATO is trying to encompass the entire of Eurasia with a “army ring.”
Nazism, he added, is “rearing its head in Europe,” and militarisation is gaining momentum, with politicians in some EU and NATO international locations speaking a few Third World Battle as a possible situation.
He insisted that Russia is just not agitating for revolution in any nation and is just calling on Member States and the UN Secretariat’s management to “strictly adhere to all the ideas of the UN Charter, with out exception, with out double normal.”
