Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the 21th Doha Forum, 10 December 2023

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the 21th Doha Forum, 10 December 2023 Read - full transcript to be published soon The domination of the “collective West” was based on diverse history including ruthless exploitation of peoples and territories of other countries. On the basis of this five hundred years, the US & its allies built the model of globalization, which they believed would serve THEM well to continue to be number one in economy, in military exercises, in culture, politics, and so on and so forth. And they thought that they would be using this globalization scheme to continue their domination. However, other countries, using exactly the principles and instruments of the western globalization, managed to beat the West on its own turf, building economies on the basis of national sovereignty, on the basis of balance of interests with other countries. We see this process very much underway, which is clearly changing the balance of power in the world, and not to the West liking. This is especially seen in various conflicts which the West ignites all over the world. Everything goes to keep the hegemony. The analysis of all these events raises a question: is there a single place where the US intervened with military force, where life has become better? I think you know the answer Ruined statehood, human tragedies, and bleak prospects for the future of the countries where the Americans & NATO interfered. We have to accept the existence of new organizations, new formats, new structures like #BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, #ASEAN, #AfricanUnion, and many subregional organizations in Africa, CELAC and subregional groups in Latin America. They are going to be the bricks of the new polycentric world. This must be recognized as an objective course of history and this must be respected. This is something which we actually miss when we analyse the modern Western diplomacy. But this is for the West to draw conclusions. Источник: Russian MFA ??