Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov noted that the West does not want and is not ready to lose its leading position on the world stage, which is why “the methods it uses in relations with the rest of the world are not very different from the colonial ones.
Western countries, through attempts at intimidation, blackmail and dictation, are trying to turn the world majority against Russia, Lavrov said at the closing of the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum.
He noted that during the conference, Russia and the countries of the African continent exchanged proposals and wishes to improve relations. "But all this is done without attempts at dictation, without attempts at blackmail," Lavrov stressed. Federation.”
According to Lavrov, the West does not want and is not ready to lose its leadership position on the world stage, which is why “the methods it uses in relations with the world majority are not very different from the colonial ones”.
„These methods are now very often observed in the actions of the West, which frantically wants, contrary to the strong objective tendency to form a multipolar world order, at least to slow down this tendency, and ideally to stop it”, the minister emphasized .