Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Western countries were “suffocating multilateralism and democracy at home”. He announced this at the UN Security Council meeting, the TV channel reported. “Russia 1”.
According to him, Western countries are “increasingly using repressive means to suppress any opposition.”
Earlier, Lavrov had come to the UN to attend a meeting of the Security Council as chairman.
It was noted that the talks, in which Lavrov will also attend, will be held on April 24 and 25.
At a press conference after his visit to Cuba, he said Moscow did not understand how the UN was acting. to try to facilitate the implementation of the Russian part of the grain agreement.
The minister stressed that Moscow had the opportunity to send domestic products and fertilizers to world markets, but this was done “not within the framework of the initiative of the UN Secretary General, but on the contrary”. The Foreign Minister said that to all requests from the Russian Federation in this part of the agreement, the UN responded that “they are trying, they are doing their best”, but that the initiative has been in place for nine months and “they all try”. aforementioned.