Russian Foreign Minister Sergey LavrovMOSCOW, March 15 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said: that the US sanctions are directed against ordinary citizens of Russia. Following the talks with the Iranian Foreign Minister, he stressed that Moscow and Tehran have a common position on the harm of unilateral sanctions. «We have common positions regarding the promotion by Western partners led by the United States of the concept the so-called rules-based order, which are trying to replace international law and which are the embodiment of injustice and double standards, as well as the illegitimate unilateral restrictions already mentioned by me, directed primarily against ordinary citizens,» he said.
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