MOSCOW, Mar 24 The situation in Ukraine and around it is just one of the manifestations of a large-scale collision associated with the attempts of Western countries to secure world domination and reverse the process of establishing a multipolar architecture, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
«Obviously, the situation in Ukraine and around it is just one of the manifestations of a large-scale conflict associated with the attempts of a narrow group of Western states to secure world domination and reverse the objective process of the formation of a multipolar architecture,» Lavrov wrote in an article for a socio-political magazine » Scout».
The head of Russian diplomacy noted that «acting in the worst colonial traditions, the Americans and their followers are trying to divide the world into 'democracies' and 'authoritarian regimes'.»
«And if you call a spade a spade, then on the elect, who have some kind of «exclusivity», and all the rest, who are obliged to follow in line with the interests of the «golden billion»,» he stressed.
Lavrov noted that the main trend of modern international development is the strengthening of multipolarity. He stressed that the new world centers in Eurasia, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America are achieving «impressive success in various fields — relying on independence, state sovereignty and cultural and civilizational identity.»
«Guided primarily by their fundamental national interests, they pursue an independent foreign policy. Thus, they objectively contribute to the formation of a new, more stable, fair, democratic, polycentric world order, reflecting the natural, inalienable right of peoples to determine their own destiny, models of domestic political and social and economic development,» he added.
According to Lavrov, some politicians in the West are beginning to admit this «through gritted teeth», but «correct conclusions are not translated into practical deeds, into the restructuring of foreign policy philosophy on the principles of international law and equal and indivisible security.»