{"id":52729,"date":"2023-04-25T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=52729"},"modified":"2023-04-25T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:19:08","slug":"lavrov-at-un-western-minoritys-place-in-multilateral-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/lavrov-at-un-western-minoritys-place-in-multilateral-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov at UN: Western minority\u2019s place in multilateral world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ukraine conflict is about the future of global order, the Russian FM told the UN Security Council<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

RT.com<\/a> | 24 Apr, 2023 23:38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9\u00a0 Russian Foreign Ministry via Sputnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired Monday\u2019s session of the UN Security Council, dedicated to \u201ceffective multilateralism.\u201d<\/em> In his opening remarks, he outlined the nature of the current conflict, which he said was really between the UN Charter and the \u201crules-based order\u201d<\/em> of the collective West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lavrov also noted that the US had effectively denied visas to his accredited media pool, a move to which Moscow has vowed to respond<\/a> in such a way \u201cto make Americans remember that things should not be done in such a fashion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crisis of the world order<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN-centric system is going through a deep crisis caused by some members\u2019 desire to replace international law with their \u201crules-based order,\u201d<\/em> Lavrov said. Such \u201crules\u201d <\/em>are invented ad hoc and applied to stop independent development. They are enforced through means ranging from military force to embargoes, financial sanctions, confiscation of property, \u201cdestruction of critical infrastructure\u201d<\/em> \u2013 likely a reference to Nord Stream sabotage \u2013 and \u201cmanipulation of universally agreed norms and procedures.\u201d<\/em> The WTO has been paralyzed, market mechanisms have collapsed, and the IMF has been turned into \u201can instrument for achieving the objectives of the US and its allies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globalization and its enemies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a desperate attempt to assert its dominance by punishing the disobedient, the US has moved to destroy globalization, which for many years it extolled as the greatest good of all mankind,\u201d<\/em> said the Russian foreign minister. Now the US and its allies blacklist anyone who dissents from their \u201cgolden billion\u201d<\/em> and tell the rest of the world, \u201cthose who are not with us are against us.\u201d
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Yet the \u201cWestern minority\u201d<\/em> has no right to speak for the entire world, Lavrov said. Its \u201crules-based order\u201d<\/em> amounts to rejection of sovereign equality, the key principle of the UN Charter, as evidenced by EU commissioner Josep Borrell\u2019s infamous statement about the European \u201cgarden\u201d<\/em> and the \u201cjungle\u201d<\/em> outside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gross violations of the UN Charter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the string of US military \u201cadventures\u201d<\/em> from Yugoslavia and Iraq to Libya, the worst violation of the UN Charter was its meddling in the affairs of post-Soviet states, Lavrov said. As examples, he brought up the \u201ccolor revolutions\u201d<\/em> in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan and the 2014 coup in Kiev. When the UN sought to stop the ensuing war by endorsing the Minsk Agreements, they were \u201ctrampled by Kiev and its Western masters, who recently cynically and even proudly admitted that they never intended to fulfill them, but only wanted to buy time to pump Ukraine with weapons against Russia,\u201d<\/em> the Russian foreign minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the Ukraine conflict is about<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today \u201cit is clear to everyone\u201d<\/em> that the Ukraine conflict isn\u2019t about Ukraine at all, but \u201cabout how international relations will be built: through crafting a stable consensus based on a balance of interests, or through aggressive and explosive promotion of hegemony,\u201d<\/em> Lavrov said. Russia has \u201chonestly said what we are fighting for\u201d<\/em> in Ukraine, he added. The goals of its military operation are to eliminate the threat to its security posed by NATO, and protect the people whose rights recognized by international conventions have been systematically violated, by a regime that seeks to \u201cexpel and exterminate\u201d<\/em> them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to save the UN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The West has made a \u201cbrazen attempt to subjugate\u201d<\/em> the UN by taking over its secretariats and other international institutions, Lavrov told the Security Council. Washington and its allies have abandoned diplomacy and demanded a battlefield showdown within the halls of the UN, created to prevent the horrors of war. Genuine multilateralism \u201crequires the UN to adapt to objective trends\u201d<\/em> of emerging multipolarity in international relations, the Russian foreign minister argued. The Security Council should be reformed to increase the representation of Africa, Asia and Latin America, as the current \u201cexorbitant overrepresentation\u201d<\/em> of the West \u201cundermines the principle of multilateralism.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ukraine conflict is about the future of global order, the Russian FM told the UN Security Council RT.com | 24 Apr, 2023 23:38 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired Monday\u2019s session of the UN Security Council, dedicated to \u201ceffective multilateralism.\u201d In his opening remarks, he outlined the nature of the current conflict, which he… Read More »Lavrov at UN: Western minority\u2019s place in multilateral world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,115,1079,7,97,27,517,684],"tags":[3003,117,94,3082,35,2784,3592,10153,744,7642,2649,7851,10154,2944,270,7789,10,8508,45,7618,664,10148,5389,10152,9760,5868,1725,1460,7869,5979,29,2670,516,5973,5972],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/lavrov-at-un2.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52731,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52729\/revisions\/52731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}