UNITED NATIONS, Sept 28 (NNN-TASS) – Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said that, the undesirable state of affairs in today’s world, stems mainly from the West’s unwillingness to relinquish its dominance in world affairs.
The number of conflicts has not declined and enmity has not weakened. New most acute challenges emerged. The fragmentation of the international community is only increasing, Lavrov told the UN General Assembly.
“In our view, the reason for the current state of affairs is, first and foremost, the unwillingness of the countries, which declared themselves the victors in the Cold War, to reckon with legitimate interests of all other states, to accept realities of the objective course of history,” he told the General Debate.
“Its hard for the West to accept seeing its centuries-long dominance in world affairs diminishing. New centres of economic growth and political influence have emerged and are developing. Without them, it is impossible to find lasting solution to global challenges which can be addressed only on the firm basis of the UN Charter, through the balance of interests of all states,” he said.
Leading Western countries are trying to impede the development of the poly-centric world and have been increasingly loath to recall international law and more often dwell on the “rules-based order,” said Lavrov.
Instead of collective work based on equal rights, closed formats outside legitimate multilateral framework are created, and approaches agreed upon behind closed doors by a narrow group of the “select few” are then declared “multilateral agreements.” This is accompanied by the attempts to “privatise” the secretariats of international organisations, and to use them in order to advance non-consensual ideas in circumvention of universal mechanisms, he said.
Attacks on international law have reached alarming levels, said Lavrov, giving, as an example, Washington’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.– NNN-TASS