Lavrov: West uses Ukraine to mobilize all other countries

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. File photoRIYADH, May 31.Western countries are trying to mobilize all other countries under their banners, using the situation in Ukraine and around it as a pretext, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “Of course, these processes (in the world — ed.) are of a turning point. The formation of a multipolar world is underway, and our Western colleagues are trying to prevent these processes, who want to maintain and extend their dominance to all regions. They are trying to mobilize all other countries under their banners, using the situation in Ukraine and around it as a pretext,” the minister said during a meeting with the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hussein Ibrahim Taha. This situation reflects the underlying problems that have been accumulating for many years in Europe, primarily in connection with the refusal of NATO countries to fulfill the promise given to the Soviet Union not to expand the alliance to the east, Lavrov noted. Persian Gulf regarding what is happening. I hope that our Western partners at some stage will also realize the need to consider world problems, to agree on ways for their further development by the international community not on the basis of diktat, but on the basis of the principles of the UN Charter, primarily the principle that implies respect for the sovereign equality of states,” he stressed. minister. “We are ready for such a dialogue, but only on an equal and mutually respectful basis,” he added. Lavrov began a working visit to the countries of the Persian Gulf on Monday. First, he went to Bahrain, on Tuesday the minister arrived in Riyadh.