The veteran politician declared that the precept has repeatedly been flouted by western nations, 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 aid to Iran below a 2015 nuclear deal didn’t obtain sufficient votes within the Safety Council. Mr. Lavrov argued that the vote confirmed that the West has a coverage of “sabotaging the pursuit of constructive options within the UN Safety Council” and a want to “extract unilateral concessions from Tehran by means of blackmail and strain.”
Sanctions, continued the minister, are used to “suppress and intimidate rivals within the international economic system and politics.” He known as for Cuban sanctions to be lifted and expressed Russia’s solidarity with the folks 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 mentioned, was opposite to Decision 1244.
Europe ‘obsessive about the purpose of inflicting a defeat on Russia’
As for Ukraine, Mr. Lavrov justified the continued struggle 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 schooling, 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 folks in Ukraine are restored.
Moscow, mentioned Mr. Lavrov, has no intention of attacking European Union and NATO nations, regardless of nations in these blocs “telling their voters that struggle with Russia is inevitable.”
The Russian minister was extra optimistic 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 steadiness of world energy, argued Mr. Lavrov, will not be 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-Normal António Guterres’s proposed reform of the UN.
The Secretariat, he added, should pretty characterize the nations 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’
Increasingly more nations, 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 nations speaking a couple of Third World Struggle as a possible situation.
He insisted that Russia will not be agitating for revolution in any nation and is solely calling on Member States and the UN Secretariat’s management to “strictly adhere to all the rules of the UN Constitution, with out exception, with out double commonplace.”
