© RIA News/Russian Foreign MinistryRussian FM Sergey Lavrov
"Until recently, a couple of years ago, the external conditions that we needed for development were determined not by us, but by the Western minority. Therefore, we will no longer rely on someone when it comes to creating the external conditions for the development that we need."He added that all the foreign policy initiatives promoted by the so-called "golden billion" group serve the sole purpose of making sure that the world lives by rules that allow Western elites to continue their colonial policies and live at the expense of others.
Lavrov also pledged that Russia will not follow in the footsteps of the "selfish" West, and will take into account the interests of other independent states.
According to the diplomat, Moscow aims to create external conditions that are as favorable as possible for the development of the country, but stressed that these conditions must also reflect "the consensus of all independent states" and fully comply with the principles of the UN Charter, which have been "repeatedly violated by our former Western colleagues."
During the meeting, Lavrov also noted that the number of countries wishing to join BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) economic blocs had increased to almost two dozen by the end of 2022. The diplomat noted that the countries wishing to join the alliances, such as Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Indonesia, Argentina, Mexico and several African nations, "play a very prominent role in their regions."
"Just listing the names of these states already shows the failure of attempts [of the West] to isolate our country," Lavrov observed, adding that the opposite has happened, with independent countries now uniting with other like-minded states
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It's the equivalent of the nonsensical spouting (maybe from this guy) that "Anglo Saxons" are destroying Europe and attacking Russia, the bass-ackwards equivalent of calling the Ukraine puppets "Nazis".
Our media is a 5 yr old kid with spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease).
Last I checked Russia has a Rot-child central bank, like every country except perhaps Iran.
I had such a phase, too.
Like, with the Rothschild argument - that might have been true a few years ago. The Western banking system had their dirty fingers in Russian internal banking affairs.
But the Russian government is not a friend of public executions and firings anymore. Like with the oligarchs two decades ago, they are shown the door. At the moment, they are busy to integrate their banking system with other BRICS members in a parallel system, circumventing SWIFT, the $$$, and the €.
Now that even the Chinese openly side with Russia.
In other words, just as people are waking up, nation states are waking up to the globalist psychopaths intent to rape and pillage the world.
Lol,
We are being played by both sides for evil intentions.
The United Nations... render unto Caesar.