Lavrov: Only the West is to blame
Restarting relationships? Russia rejects UN
September 28, 2024, 9:53 p.m
Russia recently opposed the UN Pact for the Future. Foreign Minister Lavrov is now announcing that his country sees no point in international relations with the West. The USA and Great Britain are to blame for this. But they won’t be successful, he claims.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has clearly rejected a restart of international relations. “What global cooperation can we really talk about when the West has trampled on all those unshakable values of globalization that it has been telling us about from this lectern for so many years,” Lavrov told the United Nations General Assembly in New York . Most recently, Russia distanced itself from the United Nations’ Future Pact, which should actually have been unanimously approved by 193 UN members last Sunday.
At the same time, Lavrov categorically rejected any responsibility on the part of Russia for problems in the work of several United Nations bodies, such as the Security Council. “The blame for this lies entirely with the West,” he explained. “The unprecedented level of arrogance and aggressiveness of Western policy towards Russia is not only destroying the idea of global cooperation promoted by the UN Secretary General, but is also increasingly blocking the functioning of the entire system of global governance, including the UN Security Council,” Lavrov continued .
With a view to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Lavrov sensed a British-American conspiracy to destroy Russia. Secret plans had already envisaged the destruction of what was then the Soviet Union in 1945. “But today’s Anglo-Saxon strategists do not hide their plans,” claimed Russia’s foreign minister. “While they still expect to defeat Russia at the hands of the illegitimate neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, they are already preparing Europe to plunge into a suicidal adventure.”
In this context, he recalled the nuclear arsenals of the Russian armed forces and “the futility and danger of the idea of trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power, which is Russia.” Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons just a few days ago. Accordingly, any conventional attack on Russia supported by a nuclear power will be viewed as a joint attack by these countries, Putin said.
