Russia believes that globalization “according to the American model is over, a new system is being built that does not depend on the whims of our former partners in the West,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
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The Russian foreign minister said Russia wanted no further illusions that the West, which had “proved itself to be completely unreliable, unreliable and mendacious”, would participate in good faith in the globalization processes it created and would not abuse them.
In this sense, Lavrov declared that “American-style globalization is over. Some remaining processes will inevitably have to remain, but in parallel a new system is being built, both financially and logistically, which should not depend on the whims and sense of superiority of our former Western partners”.
The foreign minister added that Russia has real partners within the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Community and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The Foreign Minister also spoke about NATO, saying that “NATO enlargement remains, so to speak, the main driving force of the West in relations not only with the Russian Federation, not only with the post-Soviet countries, not only with the countries of the former Warsaw Pact Soviet Union, practically all taken over by the North Atlantic Alliance, but also in general relations with other countries of the world, other regions of the world,” he stressed.
According to Lavrov, NATO “blatantly and without blushing refused to admit that it had promised so much [Mijaíl] Gorbachev as [Borís] Yeltsin did not expand eastward, although there was plenty of evidence that they were lying.”
The BRICS can be turned into a union of 15-17 countries if all applications for membership are met, Lavrov stressed.