Russian Foreign Ministry Head Sergei Lavrov said that the decisions taken at the G7 summit in Japan aimed to double deter the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. Lavrov said this in his speech at the meeting of the 31st Assembly of the Foreign and Defense Policy Council (SVOP). YouTube Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
The diplomat noted that the leaders of the G7 countries have a task not only to defeat Russia on the battlefield, but also to eliminate the Russian Federation as a geopolitical competitor. Lavrov pointed out that “any other country that will claim an independent place in the world order will also be suppressed as a competitor.”
“Look at the resolutions currently being discussed and adopted at the G-7 summit in Hiroshima that aim to double deter Russia and China,” he said.
Lavrov also noted that the trace of the West in Russian foreign policy is completely lost.
“We have entered the most intense phase of conflict with an aggressive bloc made up of the United States, the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance,” the diplomat said.
The Russian minister emphasized that Moscow did not show hostility on its own initiative, but had to respond to the war declared today. Lavrov assured that Russia has many allies and many like-minded people.
We do not harbor enmity towards anyone. We have to respond decisively, principledly and consistently to the war against us. Enmity stems from the other side of the barricades between those who want to live according to their own reason and in the interests of their people, and those who want to live at the expense of others, ”explained the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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Source: Gazeta
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