Lavrov: Future Of The World Order Being Decided

Future of the World Order Being Decided Today, Lavrov Says at UNGA

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The foreign minister's speech at the United Nations' annual General Assembly meeting comes in an atmosphere of unprecedented tensions between Russia and the West following the escalation of the security crisis in Ukraine earlier this year.

The future security, economic and political architecture of the planet is being decided on today, and it's up to the people of the world to determine whether it will continue to be an order dominated by the West and the golden billion, or by progressive global forces, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has indicated.

"We are meeting at a difficult and dramatic moment. Crises are growing, and the situation in the area of international security is deteriorating rapidly. Instead of having an honest dialogue and looking for compromises, what we're dealing with is disinformation, frame-ups and provocations," Lavrov said, addressing the UN General Assembly on Saturday.

Accusing Western powers of undermining trust in international law and institutions as guarantees of fairness and the protection of the weak against the strong, the foreign minister suggested these negative trends have been put on open display "in concentrated form" at the UN, eroding the principles upon which the body was founded.

"The future of the world order is being decided today. This is clear to any impartial observer. The question is whether it will be an order where one hegemon forces everyone else to live according to their notorious 'rules' which benefit only itself. Or will it be a democratic, just world - a world without blackmail and intimidation of unwanted peoples, without neo-Nazism and neo-colonialism? Russia has made a firm choice in favor of the latter, and together with our allies, partners and like-minded people are calling for work on its implementation," Lavrov said.

The Russian diplomat stressed that unipolar model of global development, "which served the interests of the so-called 'golden billion'," which amassed its wealth using the resources of Asia, Africa and Latin America, is receding into the past.

"Today, we're witnessing sovereign states ready to defend their national interests, and this is resulting in the creation of an equal, socially-oriented, multipolar architecture," Lavrov said. The West considers these processes a threat, and the United States and its allies "want to stop the march of history," he added.

Lavrov suggested that "at some point, having declared victory in the Cold War, Washington elevated itself almost to the position of the messenger of the Lord God on Earth, who has no obligations, but only the 'sacred' right to act with impunity" anywhere in the world. "Any state can be declared a zone for such actions - especially if it somehow displease the self-proclaimed 'masters of the world'."

The diplomat recalled the US wars of aggression conducted by the US far from its home shores in recent decades, from Yugoslavia to Iraq and Libya, which claimed hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.

Pointing to what he described as the "grotesque" scope of Russophobia in the West today, Lavrov accused Washington and its allies of seeking to liquidate Russia as a state.

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