Sergey Lavrov Quotes

We will do everything so that our colleagues from NATO and the EU sober up as soon as possible.

They fled, leaving the country [Afghanistan] in ruins, with the terrorist and drug threat remaining. Everyone knows how American soldiers together with drug lords were engaged in drug trafficking to Europe from Afghanistan.

They are achieving what they announced a long time ago, that Russia must know its place, Russia does not have the right to its own voice in international affairs, Russia must comply with the rules that were invented by the United States. That’s all. I think they understand very well that they won’t succeed.

The West has declared total war against us, against the entire Russian world. Nobody even hides this fact now.

The revision of risks and threats stemming from such dependence [on the Western leadership] is progressing rapidly. I assure you that we will soon see the West’s capacity to steer the global economy shrink drastically.

We will not be running after the West after it severed almost all ties… We will seek out those who have never let us down and with whom we had to make difficult compromises in the past — but once we agreed on something, they never failed us.

The concept of democracy in the West is very specific, and the West does not want or imagine any democracy in international affairs. Jungle and blooming garden—that’s all democracy.

Our special military operation [in Ukraine] is designed to put an end to the reckless expansion and reckless course towards complete domination by the United States and, under them, the remainder of Western countries [NATO] on the world stage. This domination is built with egregious violations of international law, and in accordance with some [unclear] rules, which are imposed on occasion.

The formation of a multipolar world is underway, and our Western colleagues are trying to prevent these processes, they want to maintain and extend their dominance to all regions. They are trying to mobilize all other countries to come under their flag, using the situation in Ukraine and around it as a pretext.

To all appearances, no one is going to even reform NATO. They are going to turn this defensive alliance into a global alliance claiming global military dominance. This is a dangerous path that is definitely doomed to failure.

Let us recall the example of Afghanistan, when even wedding ceremonies were subjected to air strikes, or Iraq and Libya, where statehood was completely destroyed, and many human lives were sacrificed. When states that easily pursued such a policy are now making a fuss about Ukraine, I can conclude that the lives of Afghans and Arabs mean nothing to Western governments. It’s unfortunate. Double standards, these racist and colonial instincts must be eliminated.

We may soon see the post of the EU chief diplomat abolished because the EU has virtually no foreign policy of its own and acts entirely in solidarity with the approaches imposed by the United States.