Russian foreign minister says world order needs to be adjusted to current realities

ISTANBUL

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday said that the world order needs to be adjusted to current geopolitical realities.

In an interview with Newsweek, Lavrov said that the world is currently going through a “multipolar moment,” expressing that this process is a “natural part of power rebalancing, which reflects objective changes in the world economy, finance and geopolitics.”

“The West waited longer than the others, yet it has also started to realize that this process is irreversible,” he said.

He further said that new centers of power and decision-making are growing stronger in the Global South and Global East, which he argued support mutually beneficial cooperation and respect for each other's interests rather than seeking hegemony.

According to Lavrov, increasing multipolarity is visible through the growing role of international organizations, describing the BRICS economic group as a “model of multilateral diplomacy.”

“We believe that all states, including the United States, should comply with their obligations on an equal basis with others rather than disguise their legal nihilism with mantras of their exceptionality,” he said.

“Here we are supported by the majority of countries, which see how international law is violated with complete impunity in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon,” the Russian foreign minister went on to say.

He added that he knows China shares their understanding that security and development are “inseparable and indivisible, and that as long as the West continues seeking dominance, the ideals of peace set forth in the Charter of the United Nations will remain a dead letter.”