US, ALLIES FUEL CONFLICTS, PREVENT FORMATION OF MULTIPOLAR WORLD ORDER: LAVROV

Sat 23 September 2023:

Western powers through their support to Ukraine have effectively entered direct war against Moscow, Lavrov told a news conference at the United Nations.

“You can call it anything you want, but they are fighting with us, they are straight-up fighting with us. We call it a hybrid war, but that doesn’t change things,” he said.

Russia’s foreign minister has accused Western nations of provoking crises in the food and energy markets by imposing “unilateral coercive measures” – or sanctions – on weaker nations.

“We continue to insist on a swift and full cessation of the US’s unprecedented and inhumane blockade of Cuba and the lifting of the absurd decision to declare Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism,” he said, adding Venezuela and Syria to the list of unfairly targeted nations.

He added the tool had been used by the US to “punish those they don’t like”. Washington has also imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and entities in order to degrade Moscow’s military following its invasion of Ukraine.

The February 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered trade disruptions and significant increases in international prices for energy, agricultural commodities, and fertiliser, which were already elevated due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

US, allies fuel conflicts, prevent formation of multipolar world order

Lavrov has taken aim at the United States during his speech at the UN General Assembly, saying Washington and its allies are “doing everything they can to prevent the formation of a genuine multipolar world order”.

“The US and its subordinated collective continue to fuel conflicts which artificially divide humanity into hostile blocks and hamper the achievement of overall aims,” Lavrov said.

“They are trying to force the world to play according to their own self-centred rules.”

He urged Western leaders to re-read the UN charter, which underscores the “sovereign equality of states large and small irrespective of their form of government”.

Lavrov calls West ’empire of lies’, accuses it of colonialism

In his address to the United Nation’s General Assembly, Lavrov accused Americans and Europeans of failing to keep “all sorts of promises”, including legally binding ones, and of exercising “quasi-colonial methods of subjugation.”

“Our future is being shaped by a struggle, a struggle between the global majority, in favour of a fair distribution of global benefits… and the few who wield near-colonial methods of subjugation in order to maintain their dominance, which is slipping through their fingers,” Russia’s foreign minister said.

“The collective West has … long rejected the principle of equality, looking down to the rest of the world,” he said, adding that Western countries did not keep their promises, including a NATO pledge not to expand eastwards towards Russia.

“As [Russian President Vladimir] Putin pointed out, the West is the one who is truly an empire of lies,” he added.

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