Western Dominance On The Wane – Russia’s FM Lavrov Tells #UNGA74

Riyaz Patel

The reason for the world’s current state lies “first and foremost” in the unwillingness of the self-proclaimed winners of the Cold War to reckon with “the legitimate interests of other States,” Russia’s Foreign Minister has said.

The West ignores reality by trying to prevent the formation of a multi-polar world by imposing its narrow “liberal” rules on others, Sergey Lavrov told the UN General Assembly.

Lavrov’s speech at the UN headquarters in New York Friday focused on global challenges, and he did not hold back, launching into a full-on rebuke of the Western ideal of world order.

New centers of economic growth and political influence are emerging internationally, he said, but the US and its allies are trying to impede the rise of the multi-polar world.

In order to achieve this, Lavrov said,