Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ruled out that the military action in Ukraine led to Russia’s international isolation and assured that his country has good relations with many countries in different parts of the world.
“There is no isolation. Those who have mentally and ideologically adapted to the ‘inevitability’ of Western dictatorship in the world arena are talking about this,” the minister said in an interview with various Serbian media on Monday.
Lavrov pointed out that more than 500 years of Western domination had come to an end, to be replaced by a new epoch in the formation of a multipolar world order.
“We have a variety of partners in the Asia-Pacific region, in Asia in general, as well as in Africa and Latin America,” said the minister.
Lavrov said Moscow maintains good relations with an overwhelming majority of organizations set up by emerging economies, including the African Union, the Commonwealth of Latin American and Caribbean States, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, among others.
“We have the best relations with China ever, and we are developing a particularly privileged partnership with India,” Lavrov said.
The sanctions never stopped
Referring to the unprecedented punitive measures imposed by the West on Russia, the minister recalled that “sanctions against Russia have never stopped.”
“We lived through the Soviet era under the sanctions of CoCom – the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls – when the West blocked shipments of high-tech equipment to Russia. We lived under the Jackson-Vanik change for many years,” he recalled. .
The head of Russia’s diplomacy said that there “will always be an excuse” to impose new sanctions, since the goal is not to solve a specific problem, but to “stop Russia’s development” from a strategic and geopolitical point of view.
“Caveman Russophobia”
“So we are aware of the West’s ability to look for a reason. The only thing that stands out at the moment is the outbreak of unprecedented Russophobia of cavemen, which, I would say, has been awakened in almost all Western countries, whose leaders are actively promoting it,” Lavrov said.
Referring to Russophobia, Lavrov stated that “it is impossible to arouse these kinds of feelings in a single day”, so, he suspected, “they were carefully concealed”. “Of course we will draw the appropriate conclusions,” he emphasized.