Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday (March 3) criticized Western countries for raising the issue of the Ukraine war during the G20 grouping meetings and claimed that in previous meetings of the grouping Didn’t even take care of the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia.
Participating in the Raisina Dialogue here in Delhi, Lavrov wondered why everyone was asking Russia whether it was ready to hold talks to end the war, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ) has signed an executive order declaring talks with Moscow a criminal act under President Vladimir Putin.
raised the ukraine issue
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that US President Joe Biden and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg have publicly stated that Russia will have to be defeated in the battlefield. The Russian Foreign Minister said that he says that Russia should suffer a strategic defeat and says that it is a question of survival for the West in the context of global hegemony.
Referring to Thursday’s (March 2) meeting of the G20 foreign ministers, the Russian minister said that leaders of Western countries raised the Ukraine issue, but wondered whether Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan or Yugoslavia discussed? No one is taking care of finance and economic policies for which G20 was formed.
Russia began to defend itself
Lavrov said that when Russia starts defending itself, there is nothing except Ukraine that is of interest to the G20. He said it is shameful. If they say it is a fight for survival for them, then it is a fight for survival for us too. Moscow has been warning the West for decades against supplying arms to Ukraine in preparation for NATO’s expansion and intended war against Russia.
affected by western reaction
Lavrov said European countries are not affected by what Russia is doing in Ukraine, but rather by Western reactions to Russia’s actions in the region. The Russian minister said that they (the West) do not remember when Serbia was bombed. Joe Biden, who was a senator at the time, boasted that he had promoted that stance.
A few years after military action in Iraq, Tony Blair called it a mistake. You would think that America has the right to declare a threat, as they did to other countries, but no one asked questions about it.
